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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2020-04-06 20:06:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-07 10:43:40 -0700
commitfada9ae3edeb4175e0f0ac9b369333806dcffbaa (patch)
treebc6d9f37bc84c4b1b9b7607de8a4bdc6b225b449 /drivers/base
parent68c3a6ac65f675b4b783635787fa0ed896f5b3d5 (diff)
drivers/base/memory.c: drop pages_correctly_probed()
pages_correctly_probed() is a leftover from ancient times. It dates back to commit 3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions"), where Pg_reserved checks were added as a sfety net: /* * The probe routines leave the pages reserved, just * as the bootmem code does. Make sure they're still * that way. */ The checks were refactored quite a bit over the years, especially in commit b77eab7079d9 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize probe routine"), where checks for present, valid, and online sections were added. Hotplugged memory is added via add_memory(), which will create the full memmap for the hotplugged memory, and mark all sections valid and present. Only full memory blocks are onlined/offlined, so we also cannot have an inconsistency in that regard (especially, memory blocks with some sections being online and some being offline). 1. Boot memory always starts online. Since commit c5e79ef561b0 ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: don't allow to online/offline memory blocks with holes") we disallow to offline any memory with holes. Therefore, we never online memory with holes. Present and validity checks are superfluous. 2. Only complete memory blocks are onlined/offlined (and especially, the state - online or offline - is stored for whole memory blocks). Besides the core, only arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c manually calls offline_pages() and fiddels with memory block states. But it also only offlines complete memory blocks. 3. To make any of these conditions trigger, something would have to be terribly messed up in the core. (e.g., online/offline only some sections of a memory block). 4. Memory unplug properly makes sure that all sysfs attributes were removed (and therefore, that all threads left the sysfs handlers). We don't have to worry about zombie devices at this point. 5. The valid_section_nr(section_nr) check is actually dead code, as it would never have been reached due to the WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn)). No wonder we haven't seen any of these errors in a long time (or even ever, according to my search). Let's just get rid of them. Now, all checks that could hinder onlining and offlining are completely contained in online_pages()/offline_pages(). Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127110424.5757-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/memory.c42
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 086997212dbb..96c80dfaac90 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -145,45 +145,6 @@ int memory_notify(unsigned long val, void *v)
}
/*
- * The probe routines leave the pages uninitialized, just as the bootmem code
- * does. Make sure we do not access them, but instead use only information from
- * within sections.
- */
-static bool pages_correctly_probed(unsigned long start_pfn)
-{
- unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn);
- unsigned long section_nr_end = section_nr + sections_per_block;
- unsigned long pfn = start_pfn;
-
- /*
- * memmap between sections is not contiguous except with
- * SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. We lookup the page once per section
- * and assume memmap is contiguous within each section
- */
- for (; section_nr < section_nr_end; section_nr++) {
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn)))
- return false;
-
- if (!present_section_nr(section_nr)) {
- pr_warn("section %ld pfn[%lx, %lx) not present\n",
- section_nr, pfn, pfn + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
- return false;
- } else if (!valid_section_nr(section_nr)) {
- pr_warn("section %ld pfn[%lx, %lx) no valid memmap\n",
- section_nr, pfn, pfn + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
- return false;
- } else if (online_section_nr(section_nr)) {
- pr_warn("section %ld pfn[%lx, %lx) is already online\n",
- section_nr, pfn, pfn + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
- return false;
- }
- pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION;
- }
-
- return true;
-}
-
-/*
* MEMORY_HOTPLUG depends on SPARSEMEM in mm/Kconfig, so it is
* OK to have direct references to sparsemem variables in here.
*/
@@ -199,9 +160,6 @@ memory_block_action(unsigned long start_section_nr, unsigned long action,
switch (action) {
case MEM_ONLINE:
- if (!pages_correctly_probed(start_pfn))
- return -EBUSY;
-
ret = online_pages(start_pfn, nr_pages, online_type, nid);
break;
case MEM_OFFLINE: