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memory hotplug: fix updating of num_physpages for hot plugged memory
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Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

In line with that, the memory hotplug code should update num_physpages in
a way that it retains its original (post-boot) meaning; in particular,
decreasing the value should at best be done with great care - this patch
doesn't try to ever decrease this value at all as it doesn't really seem
meaningful to do so.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Beulich authored and Linus Torvalds committed Sep 22, 2009
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -339,8 +339,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__remove_pages);

void online_page(struct page *page)
{
unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);

totalram_pages++;
num_physpages++;
if (pfn >= num_physpages)
num_physpages = pfn + 1;

#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
if (PageHighMem(page))
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -832,7 +835,6 @@ int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
zone->present_pages -= offlined_pages;
zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages -= offlined_pages;
totalram_pages -= offlined_pages;
num_physpages -= offlined_pages;

setup_per_zone_wmarks();
calculate_zone_inactive_ratio(zone);
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