Re: [PATCH] mm/hotplug: Reorder memblock_[free|remove]() calls in try_remove_memory()

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 09/16/2019 11:17 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> In add_memory_resource() the memory range to be hot added first gets into
> the memblock via memblock_add() before arch_add_memory() is called on it.
> Reverse sequence should be followed during memory hot removal which already
> is being followed in add_memory_resource() error path. This now ensures
> required re-order between memblock_[free|remove]() and arch_remove_memory()
> during memory hot-remove.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Original patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/3/327
> 
> Memory hot remove now works on arm64 without this because a recent commit
> 60bb462fc7ad ("drivers/base/node.c: simplify unregister_memory_block_under_nodes()").
> 
> David mentioned that re-ordering should still make sense for consistency
> purpose (removing stuff in the reverse order they were added). This patch
> is now detached from arm64 hot-remove series.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/3/326
> 
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index c73f09913165..355c466e0621 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1770,13 +1770,13 @@ static int __ref try_remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
>  
>  	/* remove memmap entry */
>  	firmware_map_remove(start, start + size, "System RAM");
> -	memblock_free(start, size);
> -	memblock_remove(start, size);
>  
>  	/* remove memory block devices before removing memory */
>  	remove_memory_block_devices(start, size);
>  
>  	arch_remove_memory(nid, start, size, NULL);
> +	memblock_free(start, size);
> +	memblock_remove(start, size);
>  	__release_memory_resource(start, size);
>  
>  	try_offline_node(nid);
> 

Hello Andrew,

Any feedbacks on this, does it look okay ?

- Anshuman