Thread (63 messages) 63 messages, 3 authors, 2021-03-26

Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: 2021-03-25 16:48:27
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: driver core, kobjects, debugfs and sysfs, memory hot(un)plug, memory management, the rest · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, "Rafael J. Wysocki", Danilo Krummrich, David Hildenbrand, Oscar Salvador, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

On Thu 25-03-21 17:36:22, Michal Hocko wrote:
If all it takes is to make pfn_to_online_page work (and my
previous attempt is incorrect because it should consult block rather
than section pfn range)
This should work.
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 9697acfe96eb..e50d685be8ab 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -510,6 +510,23 @@ static struct memory_block *find_memory_block_by_id(unsigned long block_id)
 	return mem;
 }
 
+struct page *is_vmemmap_page(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	unsigned long nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
+	struct memory_block *mem;
+	unsigned long block_pfn;
+
+	mem = find_memory_block_by_id(memory_block_id(nr));
+	if (!mem || !mem->nr_vmemmap_pages)
+		return NULL;
+
+	block_pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem->start_section_nr);
+	if (pfn - block_pfn > mem->nr_vmemmap_pages)
+		return NULL;
+
+	return pfn_to_page(pfn);
+}
+
 /*
  * Called under device_hotplug_lock.
  */
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 754026a9164d..760bf3ad48d5 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -304,8 +304,16 @@ struct page *pfn_to_online_page(unsigned long pfn)
 		return NULL;
 
 	ms = __nr_to_section(nr);
-	if (!online_section(ms))
+	if (!online_section(ms)) {
+		/*
+		 * vmemmap reserved space can eat up a whole section which then
+		 * never gets onlined because it doesn't contain any memory to
+		 * online.
+		 */
+		if (memmap_on_memory)
+			return is_vmemmap_page(pfn);
 		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Save some code text when online_section() +
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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