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authorRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>2009-03-10 12:55:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-10 15:55:10 -0700
commit475049809977bf3975d78f2d2fd992e19ce2d59e (patch)
tree36cda7a7735a38e92a6dc2ed58395cd3f337494d /drivers/base
parent1abaf3326bf2a2fabd6a0b6258e9cb33d734050a (diff)
mm: get_nid_for_pfn() returns int
get_nid_for_pfn() returns int Presumably the (nid < 0) case has never happened. We do know that it is happening on one system while creating a symlink for a memory section so it should also happen on the same system if unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() were called to remove the same symlink. The test was actually added in response to a problem with an earlier version reported by Yasunori Goto where one or more of the leading pages of a memory section on the 2nd node of one of his systems was uninitialized because I believe they coincided with a memory hole. That earlier version did not ignore uninitialized pages and determined the nid by considering only the 1st page of each memory section. This caused the symlink to the 1st memory section on the 2nd node to be incorrectly created in /sys/devices/system/node/node0 instead of /sys/devices/system/node/node1. The problem was fixed by adding the test to skip over uninitialized pages. I suspect we have not seen any reports of the non-removal of a symlink due to the incorrect declaration of the nid variable in unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() because - systems where a memory section could have an uninitialized range of leading pages are probably rare. - memory remove is probably not done very frequently on the systems that are capable of demonstrating the problem. - lingering symlink(s) that should have been removed may have simply gone unnoticed. [garyhade@us.ibm.com: wrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/node.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index 43fa90b837ee..f8f578a71b25 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ int unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk)
sect_start_pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem_blk->phys_index);
sect_end_pfn = sect_start_pfn + PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1;
for (pfn = sect_start_pfn; pfn <= sect_end_pfn; pfn++) {
- unsigned int nid;
+ int nid;
nid = get_nid_for_pfn(pfn);
if (nid < 0)