From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hca@linux.ibm.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
teawater <teawaterz@linux.alibaba.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@cloud.ionos.com>,
Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-mem: check against memhp_get_pluggable_range() which memory we can hotplug
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:27:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <630a8785-222d-26ed-a57a-ac5b58d7a04d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1644ce0-427f-7a5c-b90a-547e61341a75@arm.com>
On 18.01.21 14:21, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
> On 1/18/21 6:43 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>>
>> Right now, we only check against MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - but turns out there
>> are more restrictions of which memory we can actually hotplug, especially
>> om arm64 or s390x once we support them: we might receive something like
>> -E2BIG or -ERANGE from add_memory_driver_managed(), stopping device
>> operation.
>>
>> So, check right when initializing the device which memory we can add,
>> warning the user. Try only adding actually pluggable ranges: in the worst
>> case, no memory provided by our device is pluggable.
>>
>> In the usual case, we expect all device memory to be pluggable, and in
>> corner cases only some memory at the end of the device-managed memory
>> region to not be pluggable.
>>
>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
>> Cc: teawater <teawaterz@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
>> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@cloud.ionos.com>
>> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
>> Cc: hca@linux.ibm.com
>> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
>> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
>
> Hello David,
>
> As your original patch was in the RFC state, I have just maintained
> the same here as well. But once you test this patch along with the
> new series, please do let me know if this needs to be converted to
> a normal PATCH instead. Thank you.
I'll give it a churn on x86-64, where not that much should change. It
will be interesting to test with arm64 in such corner cases in the future.
Thanks
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-18 13:12 [PATCH V3 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Pre-validate the address range with platform Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-18 13:12 ` [PATCH V3 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Prevalidate the address range being added " Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-19 12:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-20 8:33 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-20 10:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-20 11:58 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-21 9:23 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-22 9:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-22 10:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-22 10:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-22 10:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-18 13:13 ` [PATCH V3 2/3] arm64/mm: Define arch_get_mappable_range() Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-19 12:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-18 13:13 ` [PATCH V3 3/3] s390/mm: " Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-19 12:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-20 8:28 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-20 10:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-18 13:13 ` [PATCH RFC] virtio-mem: check against memhp_get_pluggable_range() which memory we can hotplug Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-18 13:21 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-19 12:27 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-01-21 9:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-22 3:32 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-19 13:33 ` [PATCH V3 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Pre-validate the address range with platform David Hildenbrand
2021-01-19 13:40 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-01-20 8:37 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-22 6:04 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-22 8:34 ` David Hildenbrand
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-17 15:28 [PATCH V2 0/3] mm/hotplug: " Anshuman Khandual
2021-01-11 12:41 ` [PATCH RFC] virtio-mem: check against memhp_get_pluggable_range() which memory we can hotplug David Hildenbrand
2021-01-12 4:25 ` Anshuman Khandual
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