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Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online

From Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online
Date 2017-04-20 13:00 +0200
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On 04/20/2017 11:06 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 20-04-17 10:25:27, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>> + * intersection with the given zone
>>> + */
>>> +static inline bool zone_intersects(struct zone *zone,
>>> +		unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>>> +{
>>
>> I'm looking at your current mmotm tree branch, which looks like this:
>>
>> + * Return true if [start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages) range has a non-mpty
>> + * intersection with the given zone
>> + */
>> +static inline bool zone_intersects(struct zone *zone,
>> +               unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>> +{
>> +       if (zone_is_empty(zone))
>> +               return false;
>> +       if (zone->zone_start_pfn <= start_pfn && start_pfn < zone_end_pfn(zone))
>> +               return true;
>> +       if (start_pfn + nr_pages > zone->zone_start_pfn)
>> +               return true;
>>
>> A false positive is possible here, when start_pfn >= zone_end_pfn(zone)?
> 
> Ohh, right. Looks better?

Yeah.

You can add for the whole patch

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

But I can't guarantee some corner case won't surface. The hotplug code
is far from straightforward :(

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[PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory  to zones until online Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-10 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded  memory to zones until online Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-04-20 10:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded  memory to zones until online Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-04-20 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded  memory to zones until online Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-04-20 13:00 +0200

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