From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections check
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:37:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210421073744.GB22456@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH6hoieSEFtSUfMQ@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:40:50AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 16-04-21 13:24:05, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > When using self-hosted vmemmap pages, the number of pages passed to
> > {online,offline}_pages might not fully span sections, but they always
> > fully span pageblocks.
> > Relax the check account for that case.
>
> It would be good to call those out explicitly. It would be also
> great to explain why pageblock_nr_pages is an actual constrain. There
> shouldn't be any real reason for that except for "we want online_pages
> to operate on whole memblocks and memmap_on_memory will poke
> pageblock_nr_pages aligned holes in the beginning which is a special
> case we want to allow."
Sounds good.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>
> With the changelog extended and the comment clarification (se below)
> feel free to add
Ok, thanks for the suggestion Michal.
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 11:24 [PATCH v9 0/8] Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per device) Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] drivers/base/memory: Introduce memory_block_{online,offline} Oscar Salvador
2021-04-20 9:23 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Relax fully spanned sections check Oscar Salvador
2021-04-20 9:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 7:37 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count() Oscar Salvador
2021-04-20 9:45 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 8:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-21 8:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-21 8:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 8:35 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range Oscar Salvador
2021-04-20 10:56 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 8:15 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-21 8:39 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 8:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-21 8:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-21 8:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-04-21 8:46 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] acpi,memhotplug: Enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] x86/Kconfig: Introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE Oscar Salvador
2021-04-20 10:56 ` Michal Hocko
2021-04-16 11:24 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] arm64/Kconfig: " Oscar Salvador
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