Re: mmotm 2020-07-27-18-18 uploaded (mm/page_alloc.c)

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On 29.07.20 16:38, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 29.07.20 16:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 03:31:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:20:53 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:55:53 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> config CONTIG_ALLOC
>>>>>         def_bool (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) || CMA
>>>>>
>>>>> says this is an improper combination.  And `make oldconfig' fixes it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's happening here?
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM selects CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC ...
>>>
>>> Argh, select strikes again.
>>>
>>> So I guess VIRTIO_MEM should also select COMPACTION?
>>
>> +Cc the maintainer.
>>
> 
> We had select CONFIG_CONTIG_ALLOC before and that seemed to be wrong. I
> was told select might be the wrong approach.
> 
> We want memory isolation and contig_alloc with virtio-mem (which depends
> on memory hot(un)plug). What would be the right way to achieve this?
> 

Okay, I think I am confused. I thought we had that already fixed. @mst
what happened to

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d03c88ea-200d-54ab-d7f3-f3e5b7a0a9dd@xxxxxxxxxx

That patch is almost a month old, can you pick it, I already acked it.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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