Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range for sparse-vmemmap

[Anshuman Khandual]

Hello Oscar,

On 06/25/2019 01:22 PM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 93ed0df4df79..d4b5661fa6b6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -765,7 +765,10 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
>  		if (pmd_none(READ_ONCE(*pmdp))) {
>  			void *p = NULL;
>  
> -			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
> +			if (altmap)
> +				p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, altmap);
> +			else
> +				p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
>  			if (!p)
>  				return -ENOMEM;

Is this really required to be part of this series ? I have an ongoing work
(reworked https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10882781/) enabling altmap
support on arm64 during memory hot add and remove path which is waiting on
arm64 memory-hot remove to be merged first.

- Anshuman