Re: [-next] memory hotplug regression

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 26-05-17 14:25:09, Heiko Carstens wrote:
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> 1) With the new code I can generate overlapping zones for ZONE_DMA and
> ZONE_NORMAL:
> 
> --- new code:
> 
> DMA      [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000007fffffff]
> Normal   [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000017fffffff]
> 
> # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
> 10000000
> # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/valid_zones
> DMA
> # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/online
> # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/valid_zones
> Normal
> # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/online
> Normal
> 
> # cat /proc/zoneinfo
> Node 0, zone      DMA
> spanned  524288        <-----
> present  458752
> managed  455078
> start_pfn:           0 <-----
> 
> Node 0, zone   Normal
> spanned  720896
> present  589824
> managed  571648
> start_pfn:           327680 <-----
> 
> So ZONE_DMA ends within ZONE_NORMAL. This shouldn't be possible, unless
> this restriction is gone?

The patch below should help.

> --- old code:
> 
> # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/online
> # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/valid_zones
> DMA
> # echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/state
> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> # echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/state
> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

this error doesn't make any sense. Because we we want to online kernel
memory and DMA is pretty much the kernel memory

> # echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/state
> # cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory5/valid_zones
> DMA

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