powerpc/pseries/hotplug-memory: stop checking is_mem_section_removable()
In commit 53cdc1cb ("drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory blocks as removable"), the user space interface to compute whether a memory block can be offlined (exposed via /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable) has effectively been deprecated. We want to remove the leftovers of the kernel implementation. When offlining a memory block (mm/memory_hotplug.c:__offline_pages()), we'll start by: 1. Testing if it contains any holes, and reject if so 2. Testing if pages belong to different zones, and reject if so 3. Isolating the page range, checking if it contains any unmovable pages Using is_mem_section_removable() before trying to offline is not only racy, it can easily result in false positives/negatives. Let's stop manually checking is_mem_section_removable(), and let device_offline() handle it completely instead. We can remove the racy is_mem_section_removable() implementation next. We now take more locks (e.g., memory hotplug lock when offlining and the zone lock when isolating), but maybe we should optimize that implementation instead if this ever becomes a real problem (after all, memory unplug is already an expensive operation). We started using is_mem_section_removable() in commit 51925fb3 ("powerpc/pseries: Implement memory hotplug remove in the kernel"), with the initial hotremove support of lmbs. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407135416.24093-2-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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