Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v18 1/9] mm: memory_hotplug: factor out bootmem core functions to bootmem_info.c

[Muchun Song]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:14 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [I am sorry for a late review]

Thanks for your review.

>
> On Mon 08-03-21 18:27:59, Muchun Song wrote:
> > Move bootmem info registration common API to individual bootmem_info.c.
> > And we will use {get,put}_page_bootmem() to initialize the page for the
> > vmemmap pages or free the vmemmap pages to buddy in the later patch.
> > So move them out of CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE. This is just code
> > movement without any functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Separation from memory_hotplug.c is definitely a right step. I am
> wondering about the config dependency though
> [...]
> > diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
> > index 72227b24a616..daabf86d7da8 100644
> > --- a/mm/Makefile
> > +++ b/mm/Makefile
> > @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN)  += kasan/
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE) += bootmem_info.o
>
> I would have expected this would depend on CONFIG_SPARSE.
> BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE is really an odd thing to depend on here. There is
> some functionality which requires the node info but that can be gated
> specifically. Or what is the thinking behind?

At first my idea was to free vmemmap pages through the bootmem
interface. My first instinct is to rely on BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE.
It makes sense to me to depend on CONFIG_SPARSE. I will
update this in the next version.

Thanks.

>
> This doesn't matter right now because it seems that the *_page_bootmem
> is only used by x86 outside of the memory hotplug.
>
> Other than that looks good to me.
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs