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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com, anshuman.khandual@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 10:36:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2ebe8c0-916e-1117-acfd-0ac2300a7dfd@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190403083359.vqbzy5krjfzfjedx@d104.suse.de>

On 03.04.19 10:34, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:12:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> What does prevent calling somebody arch_add_memory for a range spanning
>> multiple memblocks from a driver directly. In other words aren't you
>> making  assumptions about a future usage based on the qemu usecase?
> 
> Well, right now they cannot as it is not exported.
> But if we want to do it in the future, then yes, I would have to
> be more careful because I made the assumption that hot-add/hot-remove
> are working with the same granularity, which is the case right now.
> 
> Given said this, I think that something like you said before, giving
> the option to the caller to specify whether it wants vmemmaps per the
> whole hot-added range or per memblock is a reasonable thing to do.
> That way, there will not be a problem working with different granularities
> in hot-add/hot-remove operations and we would be on safe side.

There might still be an issue if the person adding memory might be
somebody else removing memory. I am not yet sure if we should even allow
add_memory/remove_memory with different granularity. But as I noted,
ACPI and powernv.


-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-03  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-28 13:43 [PATCH 0/4] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory Oscar Salvador
2019-03-28 13:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm, memory_hotplug: cleanup memory offline path Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03  8:43   ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-28 13:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm, memory_hotplug: provide a more generic restrictions for memory hotplug Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03  8:46   ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-03  8:48     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-04 10:04     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-04 10:06       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-04 10:31       ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-04 12:04         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-03-28 13:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range for sparse-vmemmap Oscar Salvador
2019-03-28 13:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm, sparse: rename kmalloc_section_memmap, __kfree_section_memmap Oscar Salvador
2019-03-28 15:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory David Hildenbrand
2019-03-28 15:31   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29  8:45     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-03-29  8:56       ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29  9:01         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29  9:20         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-03-29 13:42       ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-01  7:59         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-01 11:53           ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-02  8:28             ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-02  8:39               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-02 12:48               ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-03  8:01                 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03  8:12                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-03  8:17                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-03  8:37                       ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-03  8:41                         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-03  8:49                           ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-03  8:53                             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-03  8:50                           ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03  8:54                             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-03  9:40                         ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03 10:46                           ` Michal Hocko
2019-04-04 10:25                           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-04-03  8:34                     ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03  8:36                       ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2019-03-29  8:30   ` Oscar Salvador
2019-03-29  8:51     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-29 22:23 ` John Hubbard
2019-04-01  7:52   ` Oscar Salvador

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