memory_hotplug: check for walk_memory_resource() failure in online_pages()
authorGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:05:50 +0000 (16:05 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 15 May 2008 02:11:14 +0000 (19:11 -0700)
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 <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory_hotplug.c

index 988bd91..656ad1c 100644 (file)
@@ -404,8 +404,15 @@ int online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
        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;