Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not assume ZONE_NORMAL is default kernel zone

From	Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not assume ZONE_NORMAL is default kernel zone
Date	2017-06-23 03:40 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 08:16:57PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> 
>> Hmm... a corner case jumped into my mind which may invalidate this
>> calculation.
>> 
>> The case is:
>> 
>> 
>>        Zone:         | DMA   | DMA32      | NORMAL       |
>>                      v       v            v              v
>>        
>>        Phy mem:      [           ]     [                  ]
>>        
>>                      ^           ^     ^                  ^
>>        Node:         |   Node0   |     |      Node1       |
>>                              A   B     C  D
>> 
>> 
>> The key point is
>> 1. There is a hole between Node0 and Node1
>> 2. The hole sits in a non-normal zone
>> 
>> Let's mark the boundary as A, B, C, D. Then we would have
>> node0->zone[dma21] = [A, B]
>> node1->zone[dma32] = [C, D]
>> 
>> If we want to hotplug a range in [B, C] on node0, it looks not that bad. While
>> if we want to hotplug a range in [B, C] on node1, it will introduce the
>> overlapped zone. Because the range [B, C] intersects none of the existing
>> zones on node1.
>> 
>> Do you think this is possible?
>
>Yes, it is possible. I would be much more more surprised if it was real
>as well. Fixing that would require to use arch_zone_{lowest,highest}_possible_pfn
>which is not available after init section disappears and I am not even
>sure we should care. I would rather wait for a real life example of such
>a configuration to fix it.

Yep, not easy to fix, so wait for real case.

Or possible to add a line in commit log?

>-- 
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs

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Wei Yang
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not assume ZONE_NORMAL is  default kernel zone Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 04:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not assume ZONE_NORMAL is  default kernel zone Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-06-22 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm, memory_hotplug: do not assume ZONE_NORMAL is  default kernel zone Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> - 2017-06-23 03:40 +0200

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