Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Jan 30 2019 - 16:52:09 EST


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:37:04AM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> I yet have to check a couple of things like creating an accounting item
> like VMEMMAP_PAGES to show in /proc/meminfo to ease to spot the memory that
> went in there, testing Hyper-V/Xen to see how they react to the fact that
> we are using the beginning of the memory-range for our own purposes, and to
> check the thing about gigantic pages + hotplug.
> I also have to check that there is no compilation/runtime errors when
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM but !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
> But before that, I would like to get people's feedback about the overall
> design, and ideas/suggestions.

just a friendly reminder if some feedback is possible :-)

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3