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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@suse.com,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	keith.busch@intel.com, vishal.l.verma@intel.com,
	dave.jiang@intel.com, zwisler@kernel.org,
	thomas.lendacky@amd.com, ying.huang@intel.com,
	fengguang.wu@intel.com, bp@suse.de, bhelgaas@google.com,
	baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com, tiwai@suse.de,
	jglisse@redhat.com, david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [v4 2/2] device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 13:34:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502173419.GA3048@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190501191846.12634-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 03:18:46PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>It is now allowed to use persistent memory like a regular RAM, but
>currently there is no way to remove this memory until machine is
>rebooted.
>
>This work expands the functionality to also allows hotremoving
>previously hotplugged persistent memory, and recover the device for use
>for other purposes.
>
>To hotremove persistent memory, the management software must first
>offline all memory blocks of dax region, and than unbind it from
>device-dax/kmem driver. So, operations should look like this:
>
>echo offline > echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryN/state

This looks wrong :)

--
Thanks,
Sasha


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-01 19:18 [v4 0/2] "Hotremove" persistent memory Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-01 19:18 ` [v4 1/2] device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-01 19:18 ` [v4 2/2] device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 14:14   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-05-02 14:16     ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 15:54   ` Dan Williams
2019-05-02 16:47     ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 17:34   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2019-05-02 17:44     ` Pavel Tatashin

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