The patch titled Subject: xen/balloon: try to merge system ram resources has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is xen-balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/xen-balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/xen-balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: xen/balloon: try to merge system ram resources Let's try to merge system ram resources we add, to minimize the number of resources in /proc/iomem. We don't care about the boundaries of individual chunks we added. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200911103459.10306-8-david@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/xen/balloon.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c~xen-balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources +++ a/drivers/xen/balloon.c @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static enum bp_state reserve_additional_ mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex); /* add_memory_resource() requires the device_hotplug lock */ lock_device_hotplug(); - rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, MHP_NONE); + rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE); unlock_device_hotplug(); mutex_lock(&balloon_mutex); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-page_alloc-tweak-comments-in-has_unmovable_pages.patch mm-page_isolation-exit-early-when-pageblock-is-isolated-in-set_migratetype_isolate.patch mm-page_isolation-drop-warn_on_once-in-set_migratetype_isolate.patch mm-page_isolation-cleanup-set_migratetype_isolate.patch virtio-mem-dont-special-case-zone_movable.patch mm-document-semantics-of-zone_movable.patch mm-memory_hotplug-inline-__offline_pages-into-offline_pages.patch mm-memory_hotplug-enforce-section-granularity-when-onlining-offlining.patch mm-memory_hotplug-simplify-page-offlining.patch mm-page_alloc-simplify-__offline_isolated_pages.patch mm-memory_hotplug-drop-nr_isolate_pageblock-in-offline_pages.patch mm-page_isolation-simplify-return-value-of-start_isolate_page_range.patch mm-memory_hotplug-simplify-page-onlining.patch mm-page_alloc-drop-stale-pageblock-comment-in-memmap_init_zone.patch mm-pass-migratetype-into-memmap_init_zone-and-move_pfn_range_to_zone.patch mm-memory_hotplug-mark-pageblocks-migrate_isolate-while-onlining-memory.patch kernel-resource-make-release_mem_region_adjustable-never-fail.patch kernel-resource-move-and-rename-ioresource_mem_driver_managed.patch mm-memory_hotplug-guard-more-declarations-by-config_memory_hotplug.patch mm-memory_hotplug-prepare-passing-flags-to-add_memory-and-friends.patch mm-memory_hotplug-memhp_merge_resource-to-specify-merging-of-system-ram-resources.patch virtio-mem-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch xen-balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch hv_balloon-try-to-merge-system-ram-resources.patch