On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:34:18AM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
I still believe we need your changes, I was wondering if we've tested
it against normal memory nodes and checked if any memblock
allocations end up there. Michael showed me some memblock
allocations on node 1 of a two node machine with movable_node
The movable_node option is x86-only. Both of those nodes contain normal
memory, so allocations on both are allowed.
Longer; if you use "movable_node", x86 can identify these nodes at
boot. They call memblock_mark_hotplug() while parsing the SRAT. Then,
when the zones are initialized, those markings are used to determine
ZONE_MOVABLE.
We have no analog of this SRAT information, so our movable nodes can
only be created post boot, by hotplugging and explicitly onlining
with online_movable.
Is this true for all of system memory as well or only for nodes
hotplugged later?
As far as I know, power has nothing like the SRAT that tells us, at
boot, which memory is hotpluggable. So there is nothing to wire the
movable_node option up to.
Of course, any memory you hotplug afterwards is, by definition,
hotpluggable. So we can still create movable nodes that way.
--
Reza Arbab
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