From: "Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
To: "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Olson, Ben" <ben.olson@intel.com>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"dave.hansen@linux.intel.com" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"Biesek, Michal" <michal.biesek@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [ndctl PATCH 08/10] Documentation: clarify memory movablity for reconfigure-device
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:50:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9960b57e259cca31715326bbe8b4da5ec3cae100.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4hHT1fjPirPE8Ex5NZ8_4SjoTj-GNaXP+0+14jNBCHTig@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2019-10-18 at 13:46 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> > +'daxctl-reconfigure-device' nominally expects that it will online new memory
> > +blocks as 'movable', so that kernel data doesn't make it into this memory.
> > +However, there are other potential agents that may be configured to
> > +automatically online new hot-plugged memory as it appears. Most notably,
> > +these are the '/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks' configuration,
> > +or system udev rules. If such an agent races to online memory sections, daxctl
> > +checks if the blocks were onlined as 'movable' memory. If this was not the
> > +case, and the memory blocks are found to be in a different zone, then a
> > +warning is displayed. If it is desired that a different agent control the
> > +onlining of memory blocks, and the associated memory zone, then it is
> > +recommended to use the --no-online option described below. This will abridge
> > +the device reconfiguration operation to just hotplugging the memory, and
> > +refrain from then onlining it.
>
> Oh here's that full description that calls out udev.
>
> I think just "See daxctl reconfigure-device --help" is sufficient for
> those warnings in the previous patch.
Yep I've truncated the runtime warning down to point here.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-02 23:49 [ndctl PATCH 00/10] fixes and movability for system-ram mode Vishal Verma
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 01/10] libdaxctl: refactor path construction in op_for_one_memblock() Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 18:43 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 02/10] libdaxctl: refactor memblock_is_online() checks Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 18:45 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 03/10] daxctl/device.c: fix json output omission for reconfigure-device Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 18:46 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 04/10] libdaxctl: add an API to determine if memory is movable Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 18:54 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-18 19:57 ` Verma, Vishal L
2019-10-18 20:40 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 05/10] libdaxctl: allow memblock_in_dev() to return an error Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 19:15 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 06/10] daxctl: show a 'movable' attribute in device listings Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 19:16 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 07/10] daxctl: detect races when onlining memory blocks Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 19:26 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 08/10] Documentation: clarify memory movablity for reconfigure-device Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 20:46 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-18 20:50 ` Verma, Vishal L [this message]
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 09/10] libdaxctl: add an API to online memory in a non-movable state Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 20:54 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-02 23:49 ` [ndctl PATCH 10/10] daxctl: add --no-movable option for onlining memory Vishal Verma
2019-10-18 20:58 ` Dan Williams
2019-10-18 21:04 ` Verma, Vishal L
2019-10-18 21:25 ` Dan Williams
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