[RFC V2 0/3] mm/hotplug: Pre-validate the address range with platform

[Heiko Carstens]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 08:59:49AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This series adds a mechanism allowing platforms to weigh in and prevalidate
> incoming address range before proceeding further with the memory hotplug.
> This helps prevent potential platform errors for the given address range,
> down the hotplug call chain, which inevitably fails the hotplug itself.
> 
> This mechanism was suggested by David Hildenbrand during another discussion
> with respect to a memory hotplug fix on arm64 platform.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1600332402-30123-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/
> 
> This mechanism focuses on the addressibility aspect and not [sub] section
> alignment aspect. Hence check_hotplug_memory_range() and check_pfn_span()
> have been left unchanged. Wondering if all these can still be unified in
> an expanded memhp_range_allowed() check, that can be called from multiple
> memory hot add and remove paths.
> 
> This series applies on v5.10-rc6 and has been slightly tested on arm64.
> But looking for some early feedback here.
> 
> Changes in RFC V2:
> 
> Incorporated all review feedbacks from David.
> 
> - Added additional range check in __segment_load() on s390 which was lost
> - Changed is_private init in pagemap_range()
> - Moved the framework into mm/memory_hotplug.c
> - Made arch_get_addressable_range() a __weak function
> - Renamed arch_get_addressable_range() as arch_get_mappable_range()
> - Callback arch_get_mappable_range() only handles range requiring linear mapping
> - Merged multiple memhp_range_allowed() checks in register_memory_resource()
> - Replaced WARN() with pr_warn() in memhp_range_allowed()
> - Replaced error return code ERANGE with E2BIG
> 
> Changes in RFC V1:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1606098529-7907-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/
> 
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

Btw. please use git send-email's --cc-cover option to make sure that
all patches of this series will be sent to all listed cc's.
I really dislike to receive only the cover-letter and maybe on patch
and then have to figure out where to find the rest.

Thanks :)