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From: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 6/6] memory-hotplug.rst: add a note about ZONE_MOVABLE and page pinning
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:21:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201211202140.396852-7-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201211202140.396852-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
index 5c4432c96c4b..c6618f99f765 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
@@ -357,6 +357,15 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following.
    Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs
    to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD.
 
+.. note::
+   Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and
+   vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory
+   hot remove. Pinned pages cannot reside on ZONE_MOVABLE, to guarantee that
+   memory can still get hot removed - be aware that pinning can fail even if
+   there is plenty of free memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. In addition, using
+   ZONE_MOVABLE might make page pinning more expensive, because pages have to be
+   migrated off that zone first.
+
 .. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory:
 
 How to offline memory
-- 
2.25.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-11 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-11 20:21 [PATCH v3 0/6] prohibit pinning pages in ZONE_MOVABLE Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] mm/gup: don't pin migrated cma pages in movable zone Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] mm cma: rename PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA to PF_MEMALLOC_PIN Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-14 14:03   ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-15  4:37     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] mm: apply per-task gfp constraints in fast path Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-14 14:09   ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-15  5:20     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-15  8:25       ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-15 17:35         ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: honor PF_MEMALLOC_PIN for all movable pages Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-14 14:17   ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-15  5:24     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-15  8:27       ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-15 17:28         ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:21 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] mm/gup: migrate pinned pages out of movable zone Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:23   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-11 20:40     ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 20:46       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-11 21:09         ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 21:29           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-12-11 21:35             ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-11 21:53               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-12-11 23:00                 ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-12-12  0:07                   ` John Hubbard
2020-12-11 23:50                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-12  7:29                   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-12-14 13:36                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-12-14 14:21                       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-12-14 14:30                         ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-14 14:19   ` Michal Hocko
2020-12-11 20:21 ` Pavel Tatashin [this message]

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