Re: [PATCH] memory hotplug: avoid double registration on ia64platform

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 03:52:47PM +0800, qiuxishi wrote:
> From: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi all,
> There may be have a bug when register section info. For example, on
> an Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes.
> So when hot remove memory, we can't free the memmap's page because
> page_count() is 2 after put_page_bootmem().
> 
> sparse_remove_one_section()->free_section_usemap()->free_map_bootmem()
> ->put_page_bootmem()
> 
> pgdat0: start_pfn=0x100,    spanned_pfn=0x20fb00, present_pfn=0x7f8a3, => 0x100-0x20fc00
> pgdat1: start_pfn=0x80000,  spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x80000-0x100000
> pgdat2: start_pfn=0x100000, spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x100000-0x180000
> pgdat3: start_pfn=0x180000, spanned_pfn=0x80000,  present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x180000-0x200000
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c |   10 ++++------
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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