The patch titled
Subject: memory-hotplug.rst: document the "auto-movable" online policy
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memory-hotplugrst-document-the-auto-movable-online-policy-v2.patch
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https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memory-hotplugrst-document-the-auto-movable-online-policy-v2.patch
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memory-hotplug.rst: document the "auto-movable" online policy
- "memory-hotplug.rst: document the "auto-movable" online policy"
-- Add a pointer to generic command line parameter documentation
-- Explain relationship of "auto-movable" and "movable_node" command
line parameter, also indicating in which setups "auto-movable" doesn't
really make sense.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211011082058.6076-4-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 15 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst~memory-hotplugrst-document-the-auto-movable-online-policy-v2
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
@@ -402,6 +402,9 @@ command line parameters are relevant:
contiguous.
======================== =======================================================
+See Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt for a more generic
+description of these command line parameters.
+
Module Parameters
------------------
@@ -457,7 +460,17 @@ The following module parameters are curr
hotplugging a lot of memory later and still
wanting to be able to hotunplug as much as
possible reliably, very desirable in
- virtualized environments. As one example, a
+ virtualized environments. This policy ignores
+ the ``movable_node`` kernel command line
+ parameter and isn't really applicable in
+ environments that require it (e.g., bare metal
+ with hotunpluggable nodes) where hotplugged
+ memory might be exposed via the
+ firmware-provided memory map early during boot
+ to the system instead of getting detected,
+ added and onlined later during boot (such as
+ done by virtio-mem or by some hypervisors
+ implementing emulated DIMMs). As one example, a
hotplugged DIMM will be onlined either
completely to ZONE_MOVABLE or completely to
ZONE_NORMAL, not a mixture.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
memory-hotplugrst-fix-two-instances-of-movablecore-that-should-be-movable_node.patch
memory-hotplugrst-fix-wrong-sys-module-memory_hotplug-parameters-path.patch
memory-hotplugrst-document-the-auto-movable-online-policy.patch
memory-hotplugrst-document-the-auto-movable-online-policy-v2.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-config_x86_64_acpi_numa-dependency-from-config_memory_hotplug.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-config_memory_hotplug_sparse.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-restrict-config_memory_hotplug-to-64-bit.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-highmem-leftovers.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-remove-stale-function-declarations.patch
x86-remove-memory-hotplug-support-on-x86_32.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-handle-memblock_add_node-failures-in-add_memory_resource.patch
memblock-improve-memblock_hotplug-documentation.patch
memblock-allow-to-specify-flags-with-memblock_add_node.patch
memblock-add-memblock_driver_managed-to-mimic-ioresource_sysram_driver_managed.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-indicate-memblock_driver_managed-with-ioresource_sysram_driver_managed.patch
x86-xen-update-xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram-documentation.patch
x86-xen-simplify-xen_oldmem_pfn_is_ram.patch
x86-xen-print-a-warning-when-hvmop_get_mem_type-fails.patch
proc-vmcore-let-pfn_is_ram-return-a-bool.patch
proc-vmcore-convert-oldmem_pfn_is_ram-callback-to-more-generic-vmcore-callbacks.patch
virtio-mem-factor-out-hotplug-specifics-from-virtio_mem_init-into-virtio_mem_init_hotplug.patch
virtio-mem-factor-out-hotplug-specifics-from-virtio_mem_probe-into-virtio_mem_init_hotplug.patch
virtio-mem-factor-out-hotplug-specifics-from-virtio_mem_remove-into-virtio_mem_deinit_hotplug.patch
virtio-mem-kdump-mode-to-sanitize-proc-vmcore-access.patch
kernel-resource-clean-up-and-optimize-iomem_is_exclusive.patch
kernel-resource-disallow-access-to-exclusive-system-ram-regions.patch
virtio-mem-disallow-mapping-virtio-mem-memory-via-dev-mem.patch
