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Commit 9f9b02e5 authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: teach pfn_to_online_page() to consider subsection validity

pfn_to_online_page is primarily used to filter out offline or fully
uninitialized pages.  pfn_valid resp.  online_section_nr have a coarse
per memory section granularity.  If a section shared with a partially
offline memory (e.g.  part of ZONE_DEVICE) then pfn_to_online_page
would lead to a false positive on some pfns.  Fix this by adding
pfn_section_valid check which is subsection aware.

[mhocko@kernel.org: changelog rewrite]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161058500148.1840162.4365921007820501696.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Fixes: b13bc351

 ("mm/hotplug: invalid PFNs from pfn_to_online_page()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9f605f26
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