From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:57:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YF2iBxueewnKIG3V@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5be95091-b4ac-8e05-4694-ac5c65f790a4@redhat.com>
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:52:58AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Might have to set fully spanned section online. (vmemmap >= SECTION_SIZE)
Hi David,
could you elaborate on this a bit?
> Something else to note:
>
>
> We'll not call the memory notifier (e.g., MEM_ONLINE) for the vmemmap. The
> result is that
>
> 1. We won't allocate extended struct pages for the range. Don't think this
> is really problematic (pages are never allocated/freed, so I guess we don't
> care - like ZONE_DEVICE code).
>
> 2. We won't allocate kasan shadow memory. We most probably have to do it
> explicitly via kasan_add_zero_shadow()/kasan_remove_zero_shadow(), see
> mm/memremap.c:pagemap_range()
>
>
> Further a locking rework might be necessary. We hold the device hotplug
> lock, but not the memory hotplug lock. E.g., for get_online_mems(). Might
> have to move that out online_pages.
I will have a look and see how it goes.
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-19 9:26 [PATCH v5 0/5] Allocate memmap from hotadded memory (per device) Oscar Salvador
2021-03-19 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range Oscar Salvador
2021-03-19 10:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-19 10:31 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-19 12:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-23 10:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 10:12 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-24 12:03 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 12:10 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 12:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-24 12:37 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 13:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-24 13:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 14:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-24 13:27 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-24 14:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 14:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-24 16:04 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 19:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 8:07 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 9:17 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 10:55 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 11:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 11:23 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 12:35 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 12:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 14:08 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 14:34 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 14:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 15:12 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 15:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 15:35 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 15:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 16:07 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 16:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 16:36 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 16:47 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 16:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 22:06 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-26 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-26 8:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-26 8:57 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2021-03-26 12:15 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-26 13:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-26 14:38 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-26 14:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-26 15:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-26 16:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-26 8:55 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-26 9:11 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 18:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-25 12:26 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-25 14:02 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-25 14:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] acpi,memhotplug: Enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported Oscar Salvador
2021-03-23 10:40 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory Oscar Salvador
2021-03-23 10:47 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-24 8:45 ` Oscar Salvador
2021-03-24 9:02 ` Michal Hocko
2021-03-19 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] x86/Kconfig: Introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE Oscar Salvador
2021-03-19 9:26 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] arm64/Kconfig: " Oscar Salvador
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