Re: [PATCH V4 0/4] mm/memory_hotplug: Pre-validate the address range with platform

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On 1/25/21 2:55 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 25.01.21 03:58, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> This series adds a mechanism allowing platforms to weigh in and prevalidate
>> incoming address range before proceeding further with the memory hotplug.
>> This helps prevent potential platform errors for the given address range,
>> down the hotplug call chain, which inevitably fails the hotplug itself.
>>
>> This mechanism was suggested by David Hildenbrand during another discussion
>> with respect to a memory hotplug fix on arm64 platform.
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/1600332402-30123-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx/
>>
>> This mechanism focuses on the addressibility aspect and not [sub] section
>> alignment aspect. Hence check_hotplug_memory_range() and check_pfn_span()
>> have been left unchanged. Wondering if all these can still be unified in
>> an expanded memhp_range_allowed() check, that can be called from multiple
>> memory hot add and remove paths.
>>
>> This series applies on v5.11-rc5 and has been tested on arm64. But only
>> build tested on s390.
>>
> 
> Note that this fails to apply right now to both, -next and Linus' tree.
> Do you have a branch with he patches on top I can use for a quick test?
> Thanks
> 

Applied all four patches on v5.11-rc5.

https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/linux-anshuman/-/tree/mm/hotplug_callback/v4/




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