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