Re: [Bug 206401] kernel panic on Hyper-V after 5 minutes duetomemoryhot-add

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On 17.02.20 06:31, kkabe@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> bhe@xxxxxxxxxx sed in <20200217044850.GD4816@MiWiFi-R3L-srv>
> 
>>> Sorry, I roughly went through code, didn't get clue. Not sure if David
>>> have idea about it.
>>>
>>> By the way, may I know why you would like to run i386 guest on Hyper-V?
>>>
>>> Found people are talking about the 32bit kernel supporting in upstream,
>>> below is Linus's point of view.
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wiGbz3oRvAVFtN-whW-d2F-STKsP1MZT4m_VeycAr1_VQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>
> 
> <offtopic>
> Using Hyper-V for testing out a new kernel is convenient and faster
> before testing it out on a real i386 machine.
> And I do want bugs squashed; meanwhile "hv_balloon.hot_add=0" will be 
> a workaround.
> 
> I agree HIGHMEM64G (PAE) is going to be a deprecated feature, but I do miss
> HIGHMEM4G (needed for 1GB memory support).
> </offtopic>
> 

Could it be that we are hotplugging highmem, but when onlining memory,
it will be onlined to ZONE_NORMAL and not ZONE_HIGHMEM? That could
explain why we fail at random points in time, when somebody stumbles
over such a page.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb





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