Re: Memory hotplug vmem pages

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[Sorry for late response]

On Fri 12-10-18 10:15:26, Zaslonko Mikhail wrote:
> Hello Michal,
> 
> I've read a recent discussion about introducing the memory types for memory
> hotplug:
> https://marc.info/?t=153814716600004&r=1&w=2
> 
> In particular I was interested in the idea of moving vmem struct pages to
> the hotplugable memory itself. I'm also looking into it for s390 right now.
> So, in one of your replies you mentioned that you "have proposed (but
> haven't finished this due to other stuff) a solution for this". Have you
> covered any part of that solution yet? Could you please point me to any
> relevant discussions on this matter?

the patchset has been posted here [1]. I didn't get around to fix the
hotremove case when you have to be extra carefule to not remove pfn
range that backs struct pages still in use. I didn't have problems for
small systems but 2GB memblocks just crashed.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170801124111.28881-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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