[PATCH V3 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Prevalidate the address range being added with platform

[David Hildenbrand]

On 18.01.21 14:12, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This introduces memhp_range_allowed() which can be called in various memory
> hotplug paths to prevalidate the address range which is being added, with
> the platform. Then memhp_range_allowed() calls memhp_get_pluggable_range()
> which provides applicable address range depending on whether linear mapping
> is required or not. For ranges that require linear mapping, it calls a new
> arch callback arch_get_mappable_range() which the platform can override. So
> the new callback, in turn provides the platform an opportunity to configure
> acceptable memory hotplug address ranges in case there are constraints.
> 
> This mechanism will help prevent platform specific errors deep down during
> hotplug calls. This drops now redundant check_hotplug_memory_addressable()
> check in __add_pages() but instead adds a VM_BUG_ON() check which would

In this patch, you keep the __add_pages() checks. But as discussed, we
could perform it in mm/memremap.c:pagemap_range() insted and convert it
to a VM_BUG_ON().

Apart from that looks good to me.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb