Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:34:33 +0200 | From | Oscar Salvador <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] mm/memory_hotplug: enforce section alignment when onlining/offlining |
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:06:25PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > onlining/offlining code works on whole sections, so let's enforce that. > Existing code only allows to add memory in memory block size. And only > whole memory blocks can be onlined/offlined. Memory blocks are always > aligned to sections, so this should not break anything. > > online_pages/offline_pages will implicitly mark whole sections > online/offline, so the code really can only handle such granularities. > > (especially offlining code cannot deal with pageblock_nr_pages but > theoretically only MAX_ORDER-1) > > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Hi David,
If you are really willing to move the checks from this patch[1] to online/offline_pages, you might consider to put that in as well. So we have a function that checks for everything, and not multiple checks.
Another thing is that I would have prefered to take the checks up to memory_block_action, but offline_pages gets also called from ppc-memtrace code.
Other than that,
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10567277/
Thanks -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
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