[PATCH 2/2] Register bootmem pages at boot on powerpc

Nathan Fontenot nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Aug 10 01:32:16 EST 2013


Register bootmem pages at boot time on powerpc.

Previous commit 46723bfa540... introduced a new config option,
HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, to enable registering of bootmem pages. As a result
the bootmem pages for powerpc are not registered since we do not define this.
This causes a BUG_ON in put_page_bootmem() when trying to hotplug remove
memory on powerpc.

This patch resolves this by doing three things;
- define HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE for powerpc
- Add a routine to register bootmem via register_page_bootmem_info_node()
  in mem_init().
- Stub out the register_page_bootmem_memmap() routine needed for building
  with SPARSE_VMEMMAP enabled.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c |    6 ++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c     |    9 +++++++++
 mm/Kconfig                |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -300,5 +300,11 @@ void vmemmap_free(unsigned long start, u
 {
 }

+void register_page_bootmem_memmap(unsigned long section_nr,
+				  struct page *start_page, unsigned long size)
+{
+	WARN_ONCE(1, KERN_INFO
+		  "Sparse Vmemmap not fully supported for bootmem info nodes\n");
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */

Index: powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
===================================================================
--- powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -297,12 +297,21 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
 }
 #endif /* ! CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES */

+static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for_each_online_node(i)
+		register_page_bootmem_info_node(NODE_DATA(i));
+}
+
 void __init mem_init(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SWIOTLB
 	swiotlb_init(0);
 #endif

+	register_page_bootmem_info();
 	high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE);
 	set_max_mapnr(max_pfn);
 	free_all_bootmem();
Index: powerpc/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- powerpc.orig/mm/Kconfig
+++ powerpc/mm/Kconfig
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
 config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
 	select MEMORY_ISOLATION
-	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if X86_64
+	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if (X86_64 || PPC64)
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	depends on MIGRATION




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