Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] hibernation should work ok with memory hotplug

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 4 of November 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 14:34 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > A node might have a node_start_pfn=0 and a node_end_pfn=100 (and it may
> > have only one zone).  But, there may be another node with
> > node_start_pfn=10 and a node_end_pfn=20.  This loop:
> > 
> >         for_each_zone(zone) {
> > 		...
> >                 for (pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn; pfn < max_zone_pfn; pfn++)
> >                         if (page_is_saveable(zone, pfn))
> >                                 memory_bm_set_bit(orig_bm, pfn);
> >         }
> > 
> > will walk over the smaller node's pfn range multiple times.  Is this OK?
> > 
> > I think all you have to do to fix it is check page_zone(page) == zone
> > and skip out if they don't match.
> 
> So pfn 10 in the first node refers to the same memory as pfn 10 in the
> second node?

A pfn always refers to specific page frame and/or struct page, so yes.
However, in one of the nodes these pfns are sort of "invalid" (they point
to struct pages belonging to other zones).  AFAICS.

Thanks,
Rafael