Re: [PATCH 11/14] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online

From: Wei Yang
Date: Sat Jun 24 2017 - 20:14:57 EST


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:58:24AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
[...]
>+void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone,
>+ unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>+{
>+ struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
>+ int nid = pgdat->node_id;
>+ unsigned long flags;
>+ unsigned long i;

This is an unused variable:

mm/memory_hotplug.c: In function âmove_pfn_range_to_zoneâ:
mm/memory_hotplug.c:895:16: warning: unused variable âiâ [-Wunused-variable]

Do you suggest me to write a patch or you would fix it in your later rework?

>+
>+ if (zone_is_empty(zone))
>+ init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>+
>+ clear_zone_contiguous(zone);
>+
>+ /* TODO Huh pgdat is irqsave while zone is not. It used to be like that before */
>+ pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
>+ zone_span_writelock(zone);
>+ resize_zone_range(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>+ zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
>+ resize_pgdat_range(pgdat, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>+ pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
>+
>+ /*
>+ * TODO now we have a visible range of pages which are not associated
>+ * with their zone properly. Not nice but set_pfnblock_flags_mask
>+ * expects the zone spans the pfn range. All the pages in the range
>+ * are reserved so nobody should be touching them so we should be safe
>+ */
>+ memmap_init_zone(nr_pages, nid, zone_idx(zone), start_pfn, MEMMAP_HOTPLUG);
>+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
>+ unsigned long pfn = start_pfn + i;
>+ set_page_links(pfn_to_page(pfn), zone_idx(zone), nid, pfn);
> }
>
>2.11.0

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