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Date:   Wed, 9 Oct 2019 13:24:24 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm: Fix access of uninitialized memmaps in
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On Wed 09-10-19 12:19:59, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]
> > pfn_to_online_page makes sense because offline pages are not really in a
> > defined state. This would be worth a patch of its own. I remember there
> 
> The issue is, once I check for pfn_to_online_page(), these functions
> can't handle ZONE_DEVICE at all anymore. Especially in regards to
> memory_failure() I don't think this is acceptable.

Could you be more specific please? I am not sure I am following.

> So while I
> (personally) only care about adding pfn_to_online_page() checks, the
> in-this-sense-fragile-subsection ZONE_DEVICE implementation requires me
> to introduce a temporary check for initialized memmaps.
> 
> > was a discussion about the uninitialized zone device memmaps. It would
> > be really good to summarize this discussion in the changelog and
> > conclude why the explicit check is really good and what were other
> > alternatives considered.
> 
> Yeah, I also expressed my feelings and the issues to be solved by
> ZONE_DEVICE people in https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/6/114. However, the
> discussion stalled and nobody really proposed a solution or followed up.

I will try to get back to that discussion but is there any technical
reason that prevents any conclusion or it is just stuck on a lack of
time of the participants?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs