Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/12] memory-hotplug: unregister memory section on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

From: Wen Congyang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:55:35 +0800

At 11/20/2012 02:22 PM, Jaegeuk Hanse Wrote:
> On 11/01/2012 05:44 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Currently __remove_section for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP does nothing. But
>> even if
>> we use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, we can unregister the memory_section.
>>
>> So the patch add unregister_memory_section() into __remove_section().
> 
> Hi Yasuaki,
> 
> In order to review this patch, I should dig sparse memory codes in
> advance. But I have some confuse of codes. Why need encode/decode mem
> map instead of set mem_map to ms->section_mem_map directly?

The memmap is aligned, and the low bits are zero. We store some information
in these bits. So we need to encode/decode memmap here.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Regards,
> Jaegeuk
> 
>>
>> CC: David Rientjes <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Jiang Liu <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Len Brown <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Christoph Lameter <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
>> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Wen Congyang <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index ca07433..66a79a7 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -286,11 +286,14 @@ static int __meminit __add_section(int nid,
>> struct zone *zone,
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>>   static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms)
>>   {
>> -    /*
>> -     * XXX: Freeing memmap with vmemmap is not implement yet.
>> -     *      This should be removed later.
>> -     */
>> -    return -EBUSY;
>> +    int ret = -EINVAL;
>> +
>> +    if (!valid_section(ms))
>> +        return ret;
>> +
>> +    ret = unregister_memory_section(ms);
>> +
>> +    return ret;
>>   }
>>   #else
>>   static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms)
> 
>