On 11.03.20 18:14, David Hildenbrand wrote: > virtio-mem wants to offline and remove a memory block once it unplugged > all subblocks (e.g., using alloc_contig_range()). Let's provide > an interface to do that from a driver. virtio-mem already supports to > offline partially unplugged memory blocks. Offlining a fully unplugged > memory block will not require to migrate any pages. All unplugged > subblocks are PageOffline() and have a reference count of 0 - so > offlining code will simply skip them. > > All we need is an interface to offline and remove the memory from kernel > module context, where we don't have access to the memory block devices > (esp. find_memory_block() and device_offline()) and the device hotplug > lock. > > To keep things simple, allow to only work on a single memory block. > Lost the ACK from Michael Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> [1] [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302142737.GP4380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Thanks, David / dhildenb
