Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Create __shrink_pages and move it to offline_pages
From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 03:52:10 EST
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 09:50:55AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:29:08PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 01:55:59PM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > > Note that Dan did post patches that already go in that direction (unifying
> > > code between devm and HMM). I think they are in Andrew queue, looks for
> > >
> > > mm: Rework hmm to use devm_memremap_pages and other fixes
> >
> > Thanks for pointing that out.
> > I will take a look at that work.
>
> Ok, I checked the patchset [1] and I think it is nice that those two (devm and HMM)
> get unified.
> I think it will make things easier when we have to change things for the memory-hotplug.
> Actually, I think that after [2], all hot-adding memory will be handled in
> devm_memremap_pages.
Forgot to include the links:
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/19/108
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/19/110
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Oscar Salvador
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