Add a check to online_pages() to test for failure of walk_memory_resource(). This fixes a condition where a failure of walk_memory_resource() can lead to online_pages() returning success without the requested pages being onlined.
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I'm not entirely sure this is the proper way to handle this condition. Comments welcome. mm/memory_hotplug.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -408,8 +408,15 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsi if (!populated_zone(zone)) need_zonelists_rebuild = 1; - walk_memory_resource(pfn, nr_pages, &onlined_pages, + ret = walk_memory_resource(pfn, nr_pages, &onlined_pages, online_pages_range); + if (ret) { + printk(KERN_DEBUG "online_pages %lx at %lx failed\n", + nr_pages, pfn); + memory_notify(MEM_CANCEL_ONLINE, &arg); + return ret; + } + zone->present_pages += onlined_pages; zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages; _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev