Re: [PATCH] memory_hotplug: fix the panic when memory end is not on the section boundary

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 11-09-18 16:06:23, Zaslonko Mikhail wrote:
[...]
> > Well, I am afraid this is not the proper solution. We are relying on the
> > full pageblock worth of initialized struct pages at many other place. We
> > used to do that in the past because we have initialized the full
> > section but this has been changed recently. Pavel, do you have any ideas
> > how to deal with this partial mem sections now?
> 
> I think this is not related to the recent changes of memory initialization.
> If
> you mean deferred init case, the problem exists even without
> CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT kernel option.

This is more about struct page initialization (which doesn't clear
whole) memmap area and as such it stays unitialized. So you are right
this is a much older issue we just happened to not notice without
explicit memmap poisoning.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs