Re: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc/kernel: Enables memory hot-remove after reboot on pseries guests
From: Leonardo Bras
Date: Wed Mar 04 2020 - 02:19:05 EST
Hello Bharata, thanks for this feedback!
On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 10:13 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried this a few years back
> (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/800142/) and didn't pursue it
> further because at that time, it was felt that the approach might not
> work for PowerVM guests, because all the present memory except RMA
> gets marked as hot-pluggable by PowerVM. This discussion is not
> present in the above thread, but during my private discussions with
> Reza and Nathan, it was noted that making all that memory as MOVABLE
> is not preferable for PowerVM guests as we might run out of memory for
> kernel allocations.
Humm, this makes sense.
But with mu change, these pieces of memory only get into ZONE_MOVABLE
if the boot parameter 'movable_node' gets passed to guest kernel.
So, even if we are unable to sort out some flag combination that work
fine for both use-cases, if PowerVM don't pass 'movable_node' as boot
parameter to kernel, it will behave just as today.
What are your thoughts on that?
Best regards,
Leonardo Bras
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