Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm: don't rely on system state to detect hot-plug operations

[Oscar Salvador]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:41:42AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> [1] According to Oscar Salvador, using this qemu command line, ACPI memory
> hotplug operations are raised at SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state:

I would like to stress that this is not the only way we can end up
hotplugging memor while state = SYSTEM_SCHEDULING.
According to David, we can end up doing this if we reboot a VM
with hotplugged memory.
(And I have seen other virtualization technologies do the same)

 
> Fixes: 4fbce633910e ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: make register_mem_sect_under_node() a callback of walk_memory_range()")
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

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Oscar Salvador
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