Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] mm, memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jan 31 2019 - 02:23:24 EST


On Wed 30-01-19 22:52:04, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:37:04AM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > I yet have to check a couple of things like creating an accounting item
> > like VMEMMAP_PAGES to show in /proc/meminfo to ease to spot the memory that
> > went in there, testing Hyper-V/Xen to see how they react to the fact that
> > we are using the beginning of the memory-range for our own purposes, and to
> > check the thing about gigantic pages + hotplug.
> > I also have to check that there is no compilation/runtime errors when
> > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM but !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
> > But before that, I would like to get people's feedback about the overall
> > design, and ideas/suggestions.
>
> just a friendly reminder if some feedback is possible :-)

I will be off next week and will not get to this this week.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs