Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 6 authors, 2021-09-29

Re: [RFC] arm64: mm: update max_pfn after memory hotplug

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-27 17:36:19
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On 27.09.21 19:22, Georgi Djakov wrote:
On 9/24/2021 1:54 AM, Chris Goldsworthy wrote:
quoted
From: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <redacted>

After new memory blocks have been hotplugged, max_pfn and max_low_pfn
needs updating to reflect on new PFNs being hot added to system.

Signed-off-by: Sudarshan Rajagopalan <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Chris Goldsworthy <redacted>
Thanks for the patch, Chris!

With this patch, the data in /proc/kpageflags appears to be correct and
memory tools like procrank work again on arm64 platforms.

Tested-by: Georgi Djakov <redacted>

Maybe we should add fixes tag, as it has been broken since the following
commit:
Fixes: abec749facff ("fs/proc/page.c: allow inspection of last section
and fix end detection")
Are you sure that that commit broke it?

I recall that we would naturally run into the limit, because

count = min_t(size_t, count, (max_pfn * KPMSIZE) - src);

wouldn't really do what you would expect either. But you could 
force-read beyond max_pfn, yes, because the count computation was just 
weird.


I think the real issue is not properly adjusting max_pfn in the first 
place when we introduced memoruy hotplug on arm64.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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