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Wei Yang b1dbaa1916 mm, sparse: drop pgdat_resize_lock in sparse_add/remove_one_section() 
commit 83af658898 upstream.

pgdat_resize_lock is used to protect pgdat's memory region information
like: node_start_pfn, node_present_pages, etc.  While in function
sparse_add/remove_one_section(), pgdat_resize_lock is used to protect
initialization/release of one mem_section.  This looks not proper.

These code paths are currently protected by mem_hotplug_lock currently but
should there ever be any reason for locking at the sparse layer a
dedicated lock should be introduced.

Following is the current call trace of sparse_add/remove_one_section()

    mem_hotplug_begin()
    arch_add_memory()
       add_pages()
           __add_pages()
               __add_section()
                   sparse_add_one_section()
    mem_hotplug_done()

    mem_hotplug_begin()
    arch_remove_memory()
        __remove_pages()
            __remove_section()
                sparse_remove_one_section()
    mem_hotplug_done()

The comment above the pgdat_resize_lock also mentions "Holding this will
also guarantee that any pfn_valid() stays that way.", which is true with
the current implementation and false after this patch.  But current
implementation doesn't meet this comment.  There isn't any pfn walkers to
take the lock so this looks like a relict from the past.  This patch also
removes this comment.

[richard.weiyang@gmail.com: v4]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181204085657.20472-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
[mhocko@suse.com: changelog suggestion]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128091243.19249-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
arch mm/memory_hotplug: make remove_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock 2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
block block: don't use bio->bi_vcnt to figure out segment number 2020-01-27 14:50:23 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: tgr192 - fix unaligned memory access 2020-01-27 14:50:13 +01:00
Documentation Documentation: Document arm64 kpti control 2020-01-29 16:43:19 +01:00
drivers mm/memory_hotplug: make remove_memory() take the device_hotplug_lock 2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs do_last(): fetch directory ->i_mode and ->i_uid before it's too late 2020-01-29 16:43:21 +01:00
include mm, sparse: drop pgdat_resize_lock in sparse_add/remove_one_section() 2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
init fork: fix some -Wmissing-prototypes warnings 2019-12-05 09:21:04 +01:00
ipc ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid 2019-08-06 19:06:52 +02:00
kernel tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same var as value 2020-01-29 16:43:23 +01:00
lib Partially revert "kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() and kfifo_init()" 2020-01-27 14:51:08 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm, sparse: drop pgdat_resize_lock in sparse_add/remove_one_section() 2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
net net/x25: fix nonblocking connect 2020-01-29 16:43:24 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix broken xdp_rxq_info due to map order assumptions 2020-01-27 14:51:22 +01:00
scripts ARM: 8950/1: ftrace/recordmcount: filter relocation types 2020-01-29 16:43:19 +01:00
security keys: Timestamp new keys 2020-01-27 14:50:23 +01:00
sound ASoC: sun4i-i2s: RX and TX counter registers are swapped 2020-01-27 14:51:05 +01:00
tools tools: bpftool: fix format strings and arguments for jsonw_printf() 2020-01-27 14:51:05 +01:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-10-07 18:57:16 +02:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't rely on the wrong pending table 2019-12-13 08:52:45 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
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CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver 2019-10-17 13:44:47 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.99 2020-01-27 14:51:23 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.