Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem_map clearing | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:02:31 -0700 |
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On 04/07/2018 11:50 PM, Baoquan He wrote: >> Should the " = 0" instead be clearing SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT or >> something? That would make it easier to match the code up with the code >> that it is effectively undoing. > > Not sure if I understand your question correctly. From memory_present(), > information encoded into ms->section_mem_map including numa node, > SECTION_IS_ONLINE and SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT. Not sure if it's OK to only > clear SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT. People may wrongly check SECTION_IS_ONLINE > and do something on this memory section?
What is mean is that, instead of:
ms->section_mem_map = 0;
we could literally do:
ms->section_mem_map &= ~SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;
That does the same thing in practice, but makes the _intent_ much more clear.
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