Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] mm/memory_hotplug: Release memory resource after arch_remove_memory()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue,  9 Apr 2019 12:01:45 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> __add_pages() doesn't add the memory resource, so __remove_pages()
> shouldn't remove it. Let's factor it out. Especially as it is a special
> case for memory used as system memory, added via add_memory() and
> friends.
> 
> We now remove the resource after removing the sections instead of doing
> it the other way around. I don't think this change is problematic.
> 
> add_memory()
> 	register memory resource
> 	arch_add_memory()
> 
> remove_memory
> 	arch_remove_memory()
> 	release memory resource
> 
> While at it, explain why we ignore errors and that it only happeny if
> we remove memory in a different granularity as we added it.

Seems sane.

> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1820,6 +1806,25 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node);
>  
> +static void __release_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * When removing memory in the same granularity as it was added,
> +	 * this function never fails. It might only fail if resources
> +	 * have to be adjusted or split. We'll ignore the error, as
> +	 * removing of memory cannot fail.
> +	 */
> +	ret = release_mem_region_adjustable(&iomem_resource, start, size);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		resource_size_t endres = start + size - 1;
> +
> +		pr_warn("Unable to release resource <%pa-%pa> (%d)\n",
> +			&start, &endres, ret);
> +	}
> +}

The types seem confused here.  Should `start' and `size' be
resource_size_t?  Or maybe phys_addr_t.

release_mem_region_adjustable() takes resource_size_t's.

Is %pa the way to print a resource_size_t?  I guess it happens to work
because resource_size_t happens to map onto phys_addr_t, which isn't
ideal.

Wanna have a headscratch over that?

>  /**
>   * remove_memory
>   * @nid: the node ID
> @@ -1854,6 +1859,7 @@ void __ref __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
>  	memblock_remove(start, size);
>  
>  	arch_remove_memory(nid, start, size, NULL);
> +	__release_memory_resource(start, size);
>  
>  	try_offline_node(nid);