Re: [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes [1/5] not-aligned memory hotaddhandling fix

From: keith mannthey
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 14:11:43 EST


On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:30 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> After Keith's report of memory hotadd failure, I increased test patterns.
> These patches are a result of new patterns. But I cannot cover all existing
> memory layout in the world, more tests are needed.
> Now, I think my patch can make things better and want this codes to be tested
> in -mm.patche series is consitsts of 5 patches.

I will test and review today.

Thanks,
Keith

> ==
> ioresouce handling code in memory hotplug allows not-aligned memory hot add.
> But when memmap and other memory structures are initialized, parameters
> should be aligned. (if not aligned, initialization of mem_map will do wrong,
> it assumes parameters are aligned.) This patch fix it.
>
> And this patch allows ioresource collision check to handle -EEXIST.
>
> Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.18-rc3/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc3.orig/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2006-08-01 16:11:56.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc3/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2006-08-01 16:38:19.000000000 +0900
> @@ -76,15 +76,22 @@
> {
> unsigned long i;
> int err = 0;
> + int start_sec, end_sec;
> + /* during initialize mem_map, align hot-added range to section */
> + start_sec = pfn_to_section_nr(phys_start_pfn);
> + end_sec = pfn_to_section_nr(phys_start_pfn + nr_pages - 1);
>
> - for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
> - err = __add_section(zone, phys_start_pfn + i);
> + for (i = start_sec; i <= end_sec; i++) {
> + err = __add_section(zone, i << PFN_SECTION_SHIFT);
>
> - /* We want to keep adding the rest of the
> - * sections if the first ones already exist
> + /*
> + * EEXIST is finally dealed with by ioresource collision
> + * check. see add_memory() => register_memory_resource()
> + * Warning will be printed if there is collision.
> */
> if (err && (err != -EEXIST))
> break;
> + err = 0;
> }
>
> return err;
> @@ -213,10 +220,10 @@
> }
>
> /* add this memory to iomem resource */
> -static void register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
> +static int register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
> {
> struct resource *res;
> -
> + int ret = 0;
> res = kzalloc(sizeof(struct resource), GFP_KERNEL);
> BUG_ON(!res);
>
> @@ -228,7 +235,9 @@
> printk("System RAM resource %llx - %llx cannot be added\n",
> (unsigned long long)res->start, (unsigned long long)res->end);
> kfree(res);
> + ret = -EEXIST;
> }
> + return ret;
> }
>
>
> @@ -269,7 +278,7 @@
> }
>
> /* register this memory as resource */
> - register_memory_resource(start, size);
> + ret = register_memory_resource(start, size);
>
> return ret;
> error:


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