mm/hotplug: remove unnecessary BUG_ON in __offline_pages()
authorXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:21:41 +0000 (14:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:57:35 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
I think we can remove "BUG_ON(start_pfn >= end_pfn)" in __offline_pages(),
because in memory_block_action() "nr_pages = PAGES_PER_SECTION * sections_per_block"
is always greater than 0.

memory_block_action()
offline_pages()
__offline_pages()
BUG_ON(start_pfn >= end_pfn)

In v2.6.32, If info->length==0, this way may hit this BUG_ON().
acpi_memory_disable_device()
remove_memory(info->start_addr, info->length)
offline_pages()

A later Fujitsu patch renamed this function and the BUG_ON() is
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory_hotplug.c

index ca1dd3aa5eee89a924da879735d59b26cd96387f..8e333f953f080ee555ae59ec6dc8969d832f80e1 100644 (file)
@@ -1472,7 +1472,6 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
        struct zone *zone;
        struct memory_notify arg;
 
-       BUG_ON(start_pfn >= end_pfn);
        /* at least, alignment against pageblock is necessary */
        if (!IS_ALIGNED(start_pfn, pageblock_nr_pages))
                return -EINVAL;