Re: [PATCH -v4 0/14] mm: make movable onlining suck less

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On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri 09-06-17 17:51:24, Wei Yang wrote:
>> Hi, Michal
>>
>> I am not that familiar with hotplug and trying to catch up the issue
>>  and your solution.
>>
>> One potential issue I found is we don't check the physical boundary
>> when add_memory_resource().
>>
>> For example, on x86-64, only 64T physical memory is supported currently.
>> Looks it is expanded after 5-level pagetable is introduced. While there is
>> still some limitations on this. But we don't check the boundary I think.
>>
>> During the bootup, this is ensured by the max_pfn which is guaranteed to
>> be under MAX_ARCH_PFN. I don't see some limitation on this when doing
>>  hotplug.
>
> This might be true and I would have to double check but this rework
> doesn't change anything in that regards. Or do I miss something?

Ah, yes, I believe your patch set don't touch this area.

This is just related to hotplug.

> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

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