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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] virtio-mem: add memory via add_memory_driver_managed()
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On 11.06.20 12:32, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
>> Virtio-mem managed memory is always detected and added by the virtio-mem
>> driver, never using something like the firmware-provided memory map.
>> This is the case after an ordinary system reboot, and has to be guaranteed
>> after kexec. Especially, virtio-mem added memory resources can contain
>> inaccessible parts ("unblocked memory blocks"), blindly forwarding them
>> to a kexec kernel is dangerous, as unplugged memory will get accessed
>> (esp. written).
>>
>> Let's use the new way of adding special driver-managed memory introduced
>> in commit 75ac4c58bc0d ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce
>> add_memory_driver_managed()").
>
> Is this commit id correct?

Good point, it's the one from next-20200605.

7b7b27214bba

Is the correct one.

[...]

>
> Looks good to me.
> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
>

Thanks!

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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