[PATCH v5 08/14] memory-hotplug: Common APIs to support page tables hot-remove

[Tang Chen]

On 12/26/2012 10:49 AM, Tang Chen wrote:
> On 12/25/2012 04:17 PM, Jianguo Wu wrote:
>>> +
>>> +static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
>>> +{
>>> + struct zone *zone;
>>> + bool bootmem = false;
>>> + unsigned long magic;
>>> +
>>> + /* bootmem page has reserved flag */
>>> + if (PageReserved(page)) {
>>> + __ClearPageReserved(page);
>>> + bootmem = true;
>>> +
>>> + magic = (unsigned long)page->lru.next;
>>> + if (magic == SECTION_INFO || magic == MIX_SECTION_INFO)

And also, I think we don't need to check MIX_SECTION_INFO since it is
for the pageblock_flags, not the memmap in the section.

Thanks. :)

>>> + put_page_bootmem(page);
>>
>> Hi Tang,
>>
>> For removing memmap of sparse-vmemmap, in cpu_has_pse case, if magic
>> == SECTION_INFO,
>> the order will be get_order(PMD_SIZE), so we need a loop here to put
>> all the 512 pages.
>>
> Hi Wu,
>
> Thanks for reminding me that. I truely missed it.
>
> And since in register_page_bootmem_info_section(), a whole memory
> section will be set as SECTION_INFO, I think we don't need to check
> the page magic one by one, just the first one is enough. :)
>
> I will fix it, thanks. :)
>
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