Re: Memory hotplug not increasing the total RAM

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 30-01-18 14:00:06, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the latest upstream, I see that memory hotplug is not working
> as expected. The hotplugged memory isn't seen to increase the total
> RAM pages. This has been observed with both x86 and Power guests.
> 
> 1. Memory hotplug code intially marks pages as PageReserved via
> __add_section().
> 2. Later the struct page gets cleared in __init_single_page().
> 3. Next online_pages_range() increments totalram_pages only when
>    PageReserved is set.

You are right. I have completely forgot about this late struct page
initialization during onlining. memory hotplug really doesn't want
zeroying. Let me think about a fix.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs