Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] mm/hotplug: fix hot remove failure in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case

David Hildenbrand
2020-02-20T12:07:22Z

On 20.02.20 05:33, Baoquan He wrote:
> In section_deactivate(), pfn_to_page() doesn't work any more after
> ms->section_mem_map is resetting to NULL in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case.
> It caused hot remove failure:
>
> kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:4806!
> invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> CPU: 3 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Tainted: G W 5.5.0-next-20200205+ #340
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
> Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn
> RIP: 0010:free_pages+0x85/0xa0
> Call Trace:
> __remove_pages+0x99/0xc0
> arch_remove_memory+0x23/0x4d
> try_remove_memory+0xc8/0x130
> ? walk_memory_blocks+0x72/0xa0
> __remove_memory+0xa/0x11
> acpi_memory_device_remove+0x72/0x100
> acpi_bus_trim+0x55/0x90
> acpi_device_hotplug+0x2eb/0x3d0
> acpi_hotplug_work_fn+0x1a/0x30
> process_one_work+0x1a7/0x370
> worker_thread+0x30/0x380
> ? flush_rcu_work+0x30/0x30
> kthread+0x112/0x130
> ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
> ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
>
> Let's move the ->section_mem_map resetting after depopulate_section_memmap()
> to fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb