Re: [PATCH] mm, soft-offline: convert parameter to pfn

[David Hildenbrand]

On 16.10.19 10:27, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 09:56:19AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 16.10.19 09:09, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I wrote a simple cleanup for parameter of soft_offline_page(),
> > > based on thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/11/57.
> > >
> > > I know that we need more cleanup on hwpoison-inject, but I think
> > > that will be mentioned in re-write patchset Oscar is preparing now.
> > > So let me shared only this part as a separate one now.
> ...
> > I think you should rebase that patch on linux-next (where the
> > pfn_to_online_page() check is in place). I assume you'll want to move the
> > pfn_to_online_page() check into soft_offline_page() then as well?
>
> I rebased to next-20191016. And yes, we will move pfn_to_online_page()
> into soft offline code.  It seems that we can also move pfn_valid(),
> but is simply moving like below good enough for you?

At least I can't am the patch to current next/master (due to  
pfn_to_online_page()).

>    @@ -1877,11 +1877,17 @@ static int soft_offline_free_page(struct page *page)
>      * This is not a 100% solution for all memory, but tries to be
>      * ``good enough'' for the majority of memory.
>      */
>    -int soft_offline_page(struct page *page, int flags)
>    +int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>     {
>     	int ret;
>    -	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>    +	struct page *page;
>     
>    +	if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
>    +		return -ENXIO;
>    +	/* Only online pages can be soft-offlined (esp., not ZONE_DEVICE). */
>    +	if (!pfn_to_online_page(pfn))
>    +		return -EIO;
>    +	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>     	if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
>     		pr_debug_ratelimited("soft_offline: %#lx page is device page\n",
>     				pfn);
>    --
>
> Or we might have an option to do as memory_failure() does like below:

In contrast to soft offlining, memory failure can deal with devmem. So I  
think the above makes sense.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb