From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D86C4321A for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E334F20652 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:09:33 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E334F20652 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45N2kM5YrRzDqFH for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:09:31 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=suse.de (client-ip=195.135.220.15; helo=mx1.suse.de; envelope-from=osalvador@suse.de; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.de Received: from mx1.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 45MznG18GJzDqP4 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:56:50 +1000 (AEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C303FAC3A; Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:56:43 +0200 From: Oscar Salvador To: David Hildenbrand Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] mm/memory_hotplug: Make unregister_memory_block_under_nodes() never fail Message-ID: <20190610165642.GB5643@linux> References: <20190527111152.16324-1-david@redhat.com> <20190527111152.16324-11-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190527111152.16324-11-david@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 05:02:30 +1000 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Mark Brown , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wei Yang , linux-mm@kvack.org, "David S. Miller" , Jonathan Cameron , Alex Deucher , Igor Mammedov , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chris Wilson , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Dan Williams , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 01:11:51PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > We really don't want anything during memory hotunplug to fail. > We always pass a valid memory block device, that check can go. Avoid > allocating memory and eventually failing. As we are always called under > lock, we can use a static piece of memory. This avoids having to put > the structure onto the stack, having to guess about the stack size > of callers. > > Patch inspired by a patch from Oscar Salvador. > > In the future, there might be no need to iterate over nodes at all. > mem->nid should tell us exactly what to remove. Memory block devices > with mixed nodes (added during boot) should properly fenced off and never > removed. > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" > Cc: Alex Deucher > Cc: "David S. Miller" > Cc: Mark Brown > Cc: Chris Wilson > Cc: David Hildenbrand > Cc: Oscar Salvador > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Jonathan Cameron > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3