On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 03:14:44PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> 
> HMM consumes physical address space for its own use, even
> though nothing is mapped or accessible there.  It uses a
> special resource description (IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY)
> to uniquely identify these areas.
> 
> When HMM consumes address space, it makes a best guess about
> what to consume.  However, it is possible that a future memory
> or device hotplug can collide with the reserved area.  In the
> case of these conflicts, there is an error message in
> register_memory_resource().
> 
> Later patches in this series move register_memory_resource()
> from using request_resource_conflict() to __request_region().
> Unfortunately, __request_region() does not return the conflict
> like the previous function did, which makes it impossible to
> check for IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY in a conflicting
> resource.
> 
> Instead of warning in register_memory_resource(), move the
> check into the core resource code itself (__request_region())
> where the conflicting resource _is_ available.  This has the
> added bonus of producing a warning in case of HMM conflicts
> with devices *or* RAM address space, as opposed to the RAM-
> only warnings that were there previously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.ji...@intel.com>
> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwis...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.ve...@intel.com>
> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lenda...@amd.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-nvd...@lists.01.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>

> ---
> 
>  b/kernel/resource.c   |   10 ++++++++++
>  b/mm/memory_hotplug.c |    5 -----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN kernel/resource.c~move-request_region-check kernel/resource.c
> --- a/kernel/resource.c~move-request_region-check     2019-01-24 
> 15:13:14.453199539 -0800
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c       2019-01-24 15:13:14.458199539 -0800
> @@ -1123,6 +1123,16 @@ struct resource * __request_region(struc
>               conflict = __request_resource(parent, res);
>               if (!conflict)
>                       break;
> +             /*
> +              * mm/hmm.c reserves physical addresses which then
> +              * become unavailable to other users.  Conflicts are
> +              * not expected.  Be verbose if one is encountered.
> +              */
> +             if (conflict->desc == IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY) {
> +                     pr_debug("Resource conflict with unaddressable "
> +                              "device memory at %#010llx !\n",
> +                              (unsigned long long)start);
> +             }
>               if (conflict != parent) {
>                       if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY)) {
>                               parent = conflict;
> diff -puN mm/memory_hotplug.c~move-request_region-check mm/memory_hotplug.c
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~move-request_region-check   2019-01-24 
> 15:13:14.455199539 -0800
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c     2019-01-24 15:13:14.459199539 -0800
> @@ -109,11 +109,6 @@ static struct resource *register_memory_
>       res->flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
>       conflict =  request_resource_conflict(&iomem_resource, res);
>       if (conflict) {
> -             if (conflict->desc == IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY) {
> -                     pr_debug("Device unaddressable memory block "
> -                              "memory hotplug at %#010llx !\n",
> -                              (unsigned long long)start);
> -             }
>               pr_debug("System RAM resource %pR cannot be added\n", res);
>               kfree(res);
>               return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
> _

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