Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] mm: make processing of movable_node arch-specific

[Reza Arbab]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:52:53PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > As far as I know, power has nothing like the SRAT that tells us, at
> > boot, which memory is hotpluggable.
>
> On pseries we have the ibm,dynamic-memory device tree property, which
> can contain ranges of memory that are not yet "assigned to the
> partition" - ie. can be hotplugged later.
>
> So in general that statement is not true.
>
> But I think you're focused on bare-metal, in which case you might be
> right. But that doesn't mean we couldn't have a similar property, if
> skiboot/hostboot knew what the ranges of memory were going to be.

Yes, sorry, I should have qualified that statement to say I wasn't 
talking about pseries.

I can amend this set to actually implement movable_node on power too, 
but we'd have to settle on a name for the dt property. Is 
"linux,movable-node" too on the nose?

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Reza Arbab