[RFC v9 PATCH 00/21] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory

[Vasilis Liaskovitis]

Testing 3.6.0-rc7 with this v9 patchset plus more recent fixes [1],[2],[3]
Running in a guest (qemu+seabios from [4]). 
CONFIG_SLAB=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y

- succesfull hot-add and online
- succesfull hot-remove with SCI (qemu) eject
- attempt to hot-readd same memory

When the pages are re-onlined on hot-readd, I get a bad_page state for many
pages e.g.

[   59.611278] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x80000000-0x9fffffff]
[   59.637836] Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 547617
[   59.638739] Policy zone: Normal
[   59.650840] BUG: Bad page state in process bash  pfn:9b6dc
[   59.651124] page:ffffea0002200020 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0xfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfd
[   59.651494] page flags: 0x2fdfdfdfd5df9fd(locked|referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|slab|owner_priv_1|private|private_2|writeback|head|tail|swapcache|reclaim|swapbacked|unevictable|uncached|compound_lock)
[   59.653604] Modules linked in: netconsole acpiphp pci_hotplug acpi_memhotplug loop kvm_amd kvm microcode tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios evdev psmouse serio_raw i2c_piix4 i2c_core parport_pc parport processor button thermal_sys ext3 jbd mbcache sg sr_mod cdrom ata_generic virtio_net ata_piix virtio_blk libata virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio scsi_mod
[   59.656998] Pid: 988, comm: bash Not tainted 3.6.0-rc7-guest #12
[   59.657172] Call Trace:
[   59.657275]  [<ffffffff810e9b30>] ? bad_page+0xb0/0x100
[   59.657434]  [<ffffffff810ea4c3>] ? free_pages_prepare+0xb3/0x100
[   59.657610]  [<ffffffff810ea668>] ? free_hot_cold_page+0x48/0x1a0
[   59.657787]  [<ffffffff8112cc08>] ? online_pages_range+0x68/0xa0
[   59.657961]  [<ffffffff8112cba0>] ? __online_page_increment_counters+0x10/0x10
[   59.658162]  [<ffffffff81045561>] ? walk_system_ram_range+0x101/0x110
[   59.658346]  [<ffffffff814c4f95>] ? online_pages+0x1a5/0x2b0
[   59.658515]  [<ffffffff8135663d>] ? __memory_block_change_state+0x20d/0x270
[   59.658710]  [<ffffffff81356756>] ? store_mem_state+0xb6/0xf0
[   59.658878]  [<ffffffff8119e482>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xd2/0x160
[   59.659052]  [<ffffffff8113769a>] ? vfs_write+0xaa/0x160
[   59.659212]  [<ffffffff81137977>] ? sys_write+0x47/0x90
[   59.659371]  [<ffffffff814e2f25>] ? async_page_fault+0x25/0x30
[   59.659543]  [<ffffffff814ea239>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[   59.659720] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Patch 20/21 deals with a similar scenario, but only for __PG_HWPOISON flag.
Did i miss any other patch for this?

thanks,

- Vasilis

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/6/635
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/542
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/20/37
[4] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/98691