mm/memory_hotplug: release memory resource after arch_remove_memory()
Patch series "mm/memory_hotplug: Better error handling when removing memory", v1. Error handling when removing memory is somewhat messed up right now. Some errors result in warnings, others are completely ignored. Memory unplug code can essentially not deal with errors properly as of now. remove_memory() will never fail. We have basically two choices: 1. Allow arch_remov_memory() and friends to fail, propagating errors via remove_memory(). Might be problematic (e.g. DIMMs consisting of multiple pieces added/removed separately). 2. Don't allow the functions to fail, handling errors in a nicer way. It seems like most errors that can theoretically happen are really corner cases and mostly theoretical (e.g. "section not valid"). However e.g. aborting removal of sections while all callers simply continue in case of errors is not nice. If we can gurantee that removal of memory always works (and WARN/skip in case of theoretical errors so we can figure out what is going on), we can go ahead and implement better error handling when adding memory. E.g. via add_memory(): arch_add_memory() ret = do_stuff() if (ret) { arch_remove_memory(); goto error; } Handling here that arch_remove_memory() might fail is basically impossible. So I suggest, let's avoid reporting errors while removing memory, warning on theoretical errors instead and continuing instead of aborting. This patch (of 4): __add_pages() doesn't add the memory resource, so __remove_pages() shouldn't remove it. Let's factor it out. Especially as it is a special case for memory used as system memory, added via add_memory() and friends. We now remove the resource after removing the sections instead of doing it the other way around. I don't think this change is problematic. add_memory() register memory resource arch_add_memory() remove_memory arch_remove_memory() release memory resource While at it, explain why we ignore errors and that it only happeny if we remove memory in a different granularity as we added it. [david@redhat.com: fix printk warning] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190417120204.6997-1-david@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409100148.24703-2-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org> Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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