Re: [PATCH] release memory regions in PAGES_PER_SECTION chunks

From: Yasunori Goto
Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 08:00:18 EST



Good catch.
Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> During hotplug memory remove, memory regions should be released
> on a PAGES_PER_SECTION size chunks. This mirrors the code in
> add_memory where resources are requested on a PAGES_PER_SECTION size.
>
> Attempting to release the entire memory region fails because there is
> not a single resource for the total number of pages being removed.
> Instead the resources for the pages are split in PAGES_PER_SECTION
> size chunks as requested during memory add.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2008-10-13 12:00:46.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memory_hotplug.c 2008-10-13 14:29:31.000000000 -0500
> @@ -323,11 +323,11 @@
> BUG_ON(phys_start_pfn & ~PAGE_SECTION_MASK);
> BUG_ON(nr_pages % PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>
> - release_mem_region(phys_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
> -
> sections_to_remove = nr_pages / PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> for (i = 0; i < sections_to_remove; i++) {
> unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
> + release_mem_region(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
> + PAGES_PER_SECTION << PAGE_SHIFT);
> ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn));
> if (ret)
> break;
> --
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