[PATCH v2 2/5] mm/memory_hotplug: Drop PageReserved() check in online_pages_range()

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Wed Aug 14 2019 - 11:41:23 EST


move_pfn_range_to_zone() will set all pages to PG_reserved via
memmap_init_zone(). The only way a page could no longer be reserved
would be if a MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier would clear PG_reserved - which
is not done (the online_page callback is used for that purpose by
e.g., Hyper-V instead). walk_system_ram_range() will never call
online_pages_range() with duplicate PFNs, so drop the PageReserved() check.

This seems to be a leftover from ancient times where the memmap was
initialized when adding memory and we wanted to check for already
onlined memory.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 3706a137d880..10ad970f3f14 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -653,9 +653,7 @@ static int online_pages_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
{
unsigned long onlined_pages = *(unsigned long *)arg;

- if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(start_pfn)))
- onlined_pages += online_pages_blocks(start_pfn, nr_pages);
-
+ onlined_pages += online_pages_blocks(start_pfn, nr_pages);
online_mem_sections(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);

*(unsigned long *)arg = onlined_pages;
--
2.21.0