Re: [RFC V2 1/3] mm/hotplug: Prevalidate the address range being added with platform

From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2 1/3] mm/hotplug: Prevalidate the address range being added with platform
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 10:20:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <864c701a-4391-f768-1b95-1992e21835a2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1606706992-26656-2-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

On 30.11.20 04:29, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This introduces memhp_range_allowed() which can be called in various memory
> hotplug paths to prevalidate the address range which is being added, with
> the platform. Then memhp_range_allowed() calls memhp_get_pluggable_range()
> which provides applicable address range depending on whether linear mapping
> is required or not. For ranges that require linear mapping, it calls a new
> arch callback arch_get_mappable_range() which the platform can override. So
> the new callback, in turn provides the platform an opportunity to configure
> acceptable memory hotplug address ranges in case there are constraints.
> 
> This mechanism will help prevent platform specific errors deep down during
> hotplug calls. This drops now redundant check_hotplug_memory_addressable()
> check in __add_pages().
> 

[...]

>  /*
>   * Reasonably generic function for adding memory.  It is
>   * expected that archs that support memory hotplug will
> @@ -317,10 +304,6 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
>  	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!params->pgprot.pgprot))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	err = check_hotplug_memory_addressable(pfn, nr_pages);
> -	if (err)
> -		return err;
> -

I was wondering if we should add a VM_BUG_ON(!memhp_range_allowed())
here to make it clearer that callers are expected to check that first.
Maybe an other places as well (e.g., arch code where we remove the
original checks)

[...]

>  #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
> diff --git a/mm/memremap.c b/mm/memremap.c
> index 16b2fb482da1..26c1825756cc 100644
> --- a/mm/memremap.c
> +++ b/mm/memremap.c
> @@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static void dev_pagemap_percpu_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
>  static int pagemap_range(struct dev_pagemap *pgmap, struct mhp_params *params,
>  		int range_id, int nid)
>  {
> +	const bool is_private = pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE;
>  	struct range *range = &pgmap->ranges[range_id];
>  	struct dev_pagemap *conflict_pgmap;
>  	int error, is_ram;
> @@ -230,6 +231,9 @@ static int pagemap_range(struct dev_pagemap *pgmap, struct mhp_params *params,
>  	if (error)
>  		goto err_pfn_remap;
>  
> +	if (!memhp_range_allowed(range->start, range_len(range), !is_private))
> +		goto err_pfn_remap;
> +
>  	mem_hotplug_begin();
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -243,7 +247,7 @@ static int pagemap_range(struct dev_pagemap *pgmap, struct mhp_params *params,
>  	 * the CPU, we do want the linear mapping and thus use
>  	 * arch_add_memory().
>  	 */
> -	if (pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE) {
> +	if (is_private) {
>  		error = add_pages(nid, PHYS_PFN(range->start),
>  				PHYS_PFN(range_len(range)), params);
>  	} else {
> 

In general, LGTM.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb