Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-mem: check against memhp_get_pluggable_range() which memory we can hotplug

[David Hildenbrand]

On 18.01.21 14:21, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/18/21 6:43 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Right now, we only check against MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - but turns out there
>> are more restrictions of which memory we can actually hotplug, especially
>> om arm64 or s390x once we support them: we might receive something like
>> -E2BIG or -ERANGE from add_memory_driver_managed(), stopping device
>> operation.
>>
>> So, check right when initializing the device which memory we can add,
>> warning the user. Try only adding actually pluggable ranges: in the worst
>> case, no memory provided by our device is pluggable.
>>
>> In the usual case, we expect all device memory to be pluggable, and in
>> corner cases only some memory at the end of the device-managed memory
>> region to not be pluggable.
>>
>> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx
>> Cc: teawater <teawaterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Hello David,
> 
> As your original patch was in the RFC state, I have just maintained
> the same here as well. But once you test this patch along with the
> new series, please do let me know if this needs to be converted to
> a normal PATCH instead. Thank you.

Yes, you can drop the RFC part. I assume you'll send another revision,
I'll do another test there, thanks!


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb