Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm, hmm: replace hmm_devmem_pages_create() with devm_memremap_pages()

From: Logan Gunthorpe
Date: Tue May 22 2018 - 12:43:25 EST




On 21/05/18 04:35 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> + /*
> + * For device private memory we call add_pages() as we only need to
> + * allocate and initialize struct page for the device memory. More-
> + * over the device memory is un-accessible thus we do not want to
> + * create a linear mapping for the memory like arch_add_memory()
> + * would do.
> + *
> + * For all other device memory types, which are accessible by
> + * the CPU, we do want the linear mapping and thus use
> + * arch_add_memory().
> + */
> + if (pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE) {
> + error = add_pages(nid, align_start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> + align_size >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL, false);
> + } else {
> + struct zone *zone;
> +
> + error = arch_add_memory(nid, align_start, align_size, altmap,
> + false);
> + zone = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[ZONE_DEVICE];
> + if (!error)
> + move_pfn_range_to_zone(zone, align_start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> align_size >> PAGE_SHIFT, altmap);
> + }

Maybe I missed it in the patch but, don't we need the same thing in
devm_memremap_pages_release() such that it calls the correct remove
function? Similar to the replaced hmm code:

> - mem_hotplug_begin();
> - if (resource->desc == IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY)
> - __remove_pages(zone, start_pfn, npages, NULL);
> - else
> - arch_remove_memory(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
> - npages << PAGE_SHIFT, NULL);
> - mem_hotplug_done();
> -
> - hmm_devmem_radix_release(resource);

Perhaps it should be a separate patch too as it would be easier to see
outside the big removal of HMM code.

Logan