Re: [PATCH 5/9] mm, memory_hotplug: split up register_one_node

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Thu 13-04-17 16:05:17, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 04/10/2017 01:03 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > 
> > Memory hotplug (add_memory_resource) has to reinitialize node
> > infrastructure if the node is offline (one which went through the
> > complete add_memory(); remove_memory() cycle). That involves node
> > registration to the kobj infrastructure (register_node), the proper
> > association with cpus (register_cpu_under_node) and finally creation of
> > node<->memblock symlinks (link_mem_sections).
> > 
> > The last part requires to know node_start_pfn and node_spanned_pages
> > which we currently have but a leter patch will postpone this
> > initialization to the onlining phase which happens later. In fact we do
> > not need to rely on the early pgdat initialization even now because the
> > currently hot added pfn range is currently known.
> > 
> > Split register_one_node into core which does all the common work for
> > the boot time NUMA initialization and the hotplug (__register_one_node).
> > register_one_node keeps the full initialization while hotplug calls
> > __register_one_node and manually calls link_mem_sections for the proper
> > range.
> > 
> > This shouldn't introduce any functional change.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Thanks!

> nit:
> > @@ -1387,7 +1387,22 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res, bool online)
> >  	node_set_online(nid);
> >  
> >  	if (new_node) {
> > -		ret = register_one_node(nid);
> > +		unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +		unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +
> > +		ret = __register_one_node(nid);
> > +		if (ret)
> > +			goto register_fail;
> > +
> > +		/*
> > +		 * link memory sections under this node. This is already
> > +		 * done when creatig memory section in register_new_memory
> > +		 * but that depends to have the node registered so offline
> > +		 * nodes have to go through register_node.
> > +		 * TODO clean up this mess.
> 
> Is this a work-in-progress or final TODO? :)

I do not plan to address it in this series, but I will revisit it later.
There are more like this in other patches.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs