Re: [PATCH] mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Mon Jun 08 2015 - 05:02:21 EST


On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 02:44:41PM +0800, Zhu Guihua wrote:
> When hot add two nodes continuously, we found the vmemmap region info is a
> bit messed. The last region of node 2 is printed when node 3 hot added,
> like the following:
> Initmem setup node 2 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
> On node 2 totalpages: 0
> Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16090539
> Policy zone: Normal
> init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x40000000000-0x407ffffffff]
> [mem 0x40000000000-0x407ffffffff] page 1G
> [ffffea1000000000-ffffea10001fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a077d800000-ffff8a077d9fffff] on node 2
> [ffffea1000200000-ffffea10003fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a077de00000-ffff8a077dffffff] on node 2
> ...
> [ffffea101f600000-ffffea101f9fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074ac00000-ffff8a074affffff] on node 2
> [ffffea101fa00000-ffffea101fdfffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a800000-ffff8a074abfffff] on node 2
> Initmem setup node 3 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
> On node 3 totalpages: 0
> Built 3 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16090539
> Policy zone: Normal
> init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]
> [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff] page 1G
> [ffffea101fe00000-ffffea101fffffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a400000-ffff8a074a5fffff] on node 2 <=== node 2 ???
> [ffffea1800000000-ffffea18001fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a600000-ffff8a074a7fffff] on node 3
> [ffffea1800200000-ffffea18005fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a000000-ffff8a074a3fffff] on node 3
> [ffffea1800600000-ffffea18009fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a0749c00000-ffff8a0749ffffff] on node 3
> ...
>
> The cause is the last region was missed at the and of hot add memory, and
> p_start, p_end, node_start were not reset, so when hot add memory to a new
> node, it will consider they are not contiguous blocks and print the
> previous one. So we print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add
> memory to avoid the confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 457bde5..58fb223 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
> break;
> err = 0;
> }
> + vmemmap_populate_print_last();
>
> return err;
> }
> --
> 1.9.3
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