Re: [PATCH v7] mm/page_alloc.c: memory_hotplug: free pages as higher order

From: Arun KS
Date: Wed Jan 09 2019 - 06:06:40 EST


On 2019-01-09 16:27, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Wed 09-01-19 16:12:48, Arun KS wrote:
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It will be called once per online of a section and the arg value is always
set to 0 while entering online_pages_range.

You rare right that this will be the case in the most simple scenario.
But the point is that the callback can be called several times from
walk_system_ram_range and then your current code wouldn't work properly.

Thanks. Will use +=

Regards,
Arun