Re: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: only free wait_table if it's allocated by vmalloc

[Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>]

I have done a work to associate a tag with each memblock,
may be that could be reused.

On 2013-3-22 18:02, Tang Chen wrote:
> On 03/22/2013 05:54 PM, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> zone->wait_table may be allocated from bootmem, it can not be freed.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton<akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: Wen Congyang<wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Tang Chen<tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Cc: Jiang Liu<jiang.liu@huawei.com>
>> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
>> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu<wujianguo@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   mm/memory_hotplug.c |    6 +++++-
>>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index 07b6263..91ed7cd 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -1779,7 +1779,11 @@ void try_offline_node(int nid)
>>       for (i = 0; i<  MAX_NR_ZONES; i++) {
>>           struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + i;
>>
>> -        if (zone->wait_table)
>> +        /*
>> +         * wait_table may be allocated from boot memory,
>> +         * here only free if it's allocated by vmalloc.
>> +         */
>> +        if (is_vmalloc_addr(zone->wait_table))
>>               vfree(zone->wait_table);
>
> Reviewed-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> FYI, I'm trying add a flag member into memblock to mark memory whose
> life cycle is the same as a node. I think maybe this flag could be used
> to free this kind of memory from bootmem.
>
> Thanks. :)
>
>
>>       }
>>
>
>


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