From: <miltonm@bga.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tight check of pfn_valid on sparsemem - v4
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:55:35 -0500
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On Mon Jul 26 2010 about 12:47:37 EST, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Minchan Kim wrote:
> 
> > This patch registers address of mem_section to memmap itself's page struct's
> > pg->private field. This means the page is used for memmap of the section.
> > Otherwise, the page is used for other purpose and memmap has a hole.

> 
> > +void mark_valid_memmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
> > +static inline int memmap_valid(unsigned long pfn)
> > +{
> > + struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> > + struct page *__pg = virt_to_page(page);
> > + return page_private(__pg) == (unsigned long)__pg;
> 
> 
> What if page->private just happens to be the value of the page struct?
> Even if that is not possible today, someday someone may add new
> functionality to the kernel where page->pivage == page is used for some
> reason.
> 
> Checking for PG_reserved wont work?

I had the same thought and suggest setting it to the memory section block,
since that is a uniquie value (unlike PG_reserved),

> > static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
> > {
> > + struct mem_section *ms;
> > if (pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS)
> > return 0;
> > - return valid_section(__nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn)));
> > + ms = __nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn));
> > + return valid_section(ms) && memmap_valid(pfn);

.. and we already have computed it when we use it so we could pass it as
a parameter (to both _valid and mark_valid).

milton
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