Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: split memmap_on_memory requests across memblocks

["Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>]

"Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 11:16 +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > @@ -1339,27 +1367,20 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid,
>> > > struct resource *res, mhp_t mhp_flags)
>> > >         /*
>> > >          * Self hosted memmap array
>> > >          */
>> > > -       if (mhp_flags & MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY) {
>> > > -               if (!mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(size)) {
>> > > -                       ret = -EINVAL;
>> > > +       if ((mhp_flags & MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY) &&
>> > > +           mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(memblock_size)) {
>> > > +               for (cur_start = start; cur_start < start + size;
>> > > +                    cur_start += memblock_size) {
>> > > +                       ret = add_memory_create_devices(nid,
>> > > group, cur_start,
>> > > +                                                       memblock_
>> > > size,
>> > > +                                                       mhp_flags
>> > > );
>> > > +                       if (ret)
>> > > +                               goto error;
>> > > +               }
>> >
>> > We should handle the below error details here.
>> >
>> > 1) If we hit an error after some blocks got added, should we
>> > iterate over rest of the dev_dax->nr_range.
>> > 2) With some blocks added if we return a failure here, we remove
>> > the
>> > resource in dax_kmem. Is that ok?
>> >
>> > IMHO error handling with partial creation of memory blocks in a
>> > resource range should be
>> > documented with this change.
>>
>> Or, should we remove all added memory blocks upon error?
>>
> I didn't address these in v3 - I wasn't sure how we'd proceed here.
> Something obviously went very wrong and I'd imagine it is okay if this
> memory is unusable as a result.
>
> What woyuld removing the blocks we added look like? Just call
> try_remove_memory() from the error path in add_memory_resource()? (for
> a range of [start, cur_start) ?

I guess that we can just keep the original behavior.  Originally, if
something goes wrong, arch_remove_memory() and remove_memory_block() (in
create_memory_block_devices()) will be called for all added memory
range.  So, we should do that too?

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Best Regards,
Huang, Ying