Re: [PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug: Drop memory device reference after find_memory_block()

[Oscar Salvador]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:14:55PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> While current node handling is probably terribly broken for memory block
> devices that span several nodes (only possible when added during boot,
> and something like that should be blocked completely), properly put the
> device reference we obtained via find_memory_block() to get the nid.

We even have nodes sharing sections, so tricky to "fix".
But I agree that the way memblocks are being handled now sucks big time.

> 
> Fixes: d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory hotplug")
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Arun KS <arunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Well spotted David ;-)

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

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Oscar Salvador
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