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: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reported-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Michal 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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