Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:17:55 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/15] mm/hmm/devmem: device memory hotplug using ZONE_DEVICE v6 |
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On Mon 31-07-17 13:21:24, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 01:10:03PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > I haven't seen a newer version posted but the same comment applies on > > your hmm-v25-4.9 git version from > > git://people.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux > > > > On Wed 28-06-17 14:00:41, Jérôme Glisse wrote: > > > This introduce a simple struct and associated helpers for device driver > > > to use when hotpluging un-addressable device memory as ZONE_DEVICE. It > > > will find a unuse physical address range and trigger memory hotplug for > > > it which allocates and initialize struct page for the device memory. > > > > Please document the hotplug semantic some more please (who is in charge, > > what is the lifetime, userspace API to add/remove this memory if any > > etc...). > > > > I can see you call add_pages. Please document why arch_add_memory (like > > devm_memremap_pages) is not used. You also never seem to online the > > range which is in line with nvdim usage and it is OK. But then I fail to > > understand why you need > > I added documentation in function and in commit message: > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~glisse/linux/commit/?h=hmm-next&id=33e236a64da84423c83db401fc62ea13877111f2
OK, that makes more clear. Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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