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David Hildenbrand fada9ae3ed drivers/base/memory.c: drop pages_correctly_probed() 
pages_correctly_probed() is a leftover from ancient times.  It dates back
to commit 3947be1969 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove
functions"), where Pg_reserved checks were added as a sfety net:

	/*
	 * The probe routines leave the pages reserved, just
	 * as the bootmem code does.  Make sure they're still
	 * that way.
	 */

The checks were refactored quite a bit over the years, especially in
commit b77eab7079 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize probe routine"), where
checks for present, valid, and online sections were added.

Hotplugged memory is added via add_memory(), which will create the full
memmap for the hotplugged memory, and mark all sections valid and present.

Only full memory blocks are onlined/offlined, so we also cannot have an
inconsistency in that regard (especially, memory blocks with some sections
being online and some being offline).

1. Boot memory always starts online.  Since commit c5e79ef561
   ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: don't allow to online/offline memory blocks with
   holes") we disallow to offline any memory with holes.  Therefore, we
   never online memory with holes.  Present and validity checks are
   superfluous.

2. Only complete memory blocks are onlined/offlined (and especially,
   the state - online or offline - is stored for whole memory blocks).
   Besides the core, only arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/memtrace.c
   manually calls offline_pages() and fiddels with memory block states.
   But it also only offlines complete memory blocks.

3. To make any of these conditions trigger, something would have to be
   terribly messed up in the core.  (e.g., online/offline only some
   sections of a memory block).

4. Memory unplug properly makes sure that all sysfs attributes were
   removed (and therefore, that all threads left the sysfs handlers).  We
   don't have to worry about zombie devices at this point.

5. The valid_section_nr(section_nr) check is actually dead code, as it
   would never have been reached due to the WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn)).

No wonder we haven't seen any of these errors in a long time (or even
   ever, according to my search).  Let's just get rid of them.  Now, all
   checks that could hinder onlining and offlining are completely
   contained in online_pages()/offline_pages().

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200127110424.5757-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
arch userfaultfd: wp: add pmd_swp_*uffd_wp() helpers 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
block SCSI misc on 20200402 2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
Documentation userfaultfd: wp: UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP documentation update 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
drivers drivers/base/memory.c: drop pages_correctly_probed() 2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
fs userfaultfd: wp: declare _UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT conditionally 2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
include drivers/base/memory.c: drop section_count 2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
init userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
kernel mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
lib New tracing features: 2020-04-05 10:36:18 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm userfaultfd: wp: support write protection for userfault vma range 2020-04-07 10:43:39 -07:00
net 9p pull request for inclusion in 5.7 2020-04-06 08:46:59 -07:00
samples SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
scripts Char/Misc driver patches for 5.7-rc1 2020-04-03 13:22:40 -07:00
security Keyrings fixes 2020-04-04 12:24:47 -07:00
sound SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
tools userfaultfd: selftests: add write-protect test 2020-04-07 10:43:40 -07:00
usr .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-03-06 21:50:05 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap media updates for v5.7-rc1 2020-03-30 13:42:05 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS powerpc updates for 5.7 2020-04-05 11:12:59 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.7 2020-03-31 16:03:39 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -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.

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.