On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:00:04AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Re-ordering arch_remove_memory() with memblock_[free|remove] solves the
> problem on arm64 as pfn_valid() behaves correctly and returns positive
> as memblock for the address range still exists. arch_remove_memory()
> removes applicable memory sections from zone with __remove_pages() and
> tears down kernel linear mapping. Removing memblock regions afterwards
> is consistent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khand...@arm.com>

Yes, I cannot see a way of those two colliding with each other, and
a testing on my box did not raise anything spooky either.

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>

> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 0082d69..71d0d79 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1872,11 +1872,10 @@ void __ref __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 
> size)
>  
>       /* remove memmap entry */
>       firmware_map_remove(start, start + size, "System RAM");
> +     arch_remove_memory(nid, start, size, NULL);
>       memblock_free(start, size);
>       memblock_remove(start, size);
>  
> -     arch_remove_memory(nid, start, size, NULL);
> -
>       try_offline_node(nid);
>  
>       mem_hotplug_done();
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3

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