Re: [PATCH] mm/memory hotplug: print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add memory

From: Zhu Guihua
Date: Mon Jun 08 2015 - 23:42:26 EST



On 06/09/2015 07:30 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:44:41 +0800 Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When hot add two nodes continuously, we found the vmemmap region info is a
bit messed. The last region of node 2 is printed when node 3 hot added,
like the following:
Initmem setup node 2 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
On node 2 totalpages: 0
Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16090539
Policy zone: Normal
init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x40000000000-0x407ffffffff]
[mem 0x40000000000-0x407ffffffff] page 1G
[ffffea1000000000-ffffea10001fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a077d800000-ffff8a077d9fffff] on node 2
[ffffea1000200000-ffffea10003fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a077de00000-ffff8a077dffffff] on node 2
...
[ffffea101f600000-ffffea101f9fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074ac00000-ffff8a074affffff] on node 2
[ffffea101fa00000-ffffea101fdfffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a800000-ffff8a074abfffff] on node 2
Initmem setup node 3 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff]
On node 3 totalpages: 0
Built 3 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16090539
Policy zone: Normal
init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff]
[mem 0x60000000000-0x607ffffffff] page 1G
[ffffea101fe00000-ffffea101fffffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a400000-ffff8a074a5fffff] on node 2 <=== node 2 ???
[ffffea1800000000-ffffea18001fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a600000-ffff8a074a7fffff] on node 3
[ffffea1800200000-ffffea18005fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a074a000000-ffff8a074a3fffff] on node 3
[ffffea1800600000-ffffea18009fffff] PMD -> [ffff8a0749c00000-ffff8a0749ffffff] on node 3
...

The cause is the last region was missed at the and of hot add memory, and
p_start, p_end, node_start were not reset, so when hot add memory to a new
node, it will consider they are not contiguous blocks and print the
previous one. So we print the last vmemmap region at the end of hot add
memory to avoid the confusion.

...

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
break;
err = 0;
}
+ vmemmap_populate_print_last();
return err;
}
vmemmap_populate_print_last() is only available on x86_64, when
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y. Are you sure this won't break builds?

I tried this on i386 and on x86_64 when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n ,
it builds ok.

Thanks,
Zhu


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