Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range

[Oscar Salvador]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:35:03AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> No problem there. I will not insist on my approach unless I can convince
> you that it is a better solution. It seems I have failed and I can live
> with that.

Well, I am glad we got to discuss it at least.

> > +static int memory_block_online(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> > +			       unsigned long nr_vmemmap_pages, int online_type,
> > +			       int nid)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Despite vmemmap pages having a different lifecycle than the pages
> > +	 * they describe, initialiating and accounting vmemmap pages at the
> > +	 * online/offline stage eases things a lot.
> 
> This requires quite some explaining.

Definitely, I will expand on that and provide some context.

 
> Yes this is much better! Just a minor suggestion would be to push
> memory_block all the way to memory_block_online (it oline a memory
> block). I would also slightly prefer to provide 2 helpers that would make
> it clear that this is to reserve/cleanup the vmemamp space (defined in
> the memory_hotplug proper).

Glad to hear that!
By pushing memory_block all the way to memory_block_{online,offline}, you
mean passing the memblock struct together with nr_vmemmap_pages,
only_type and nid to memory_block_{offline,online}, and derive in there
the start_pfn and nr_pages?

Wrt. to the two helpers, I agree with you.
Actually, I would find quite disturbing to deal with zones in that code
domain.
I will add two proper helpers in memory_hotplug to deal with vmemmap.

If it comes out the way I envision, it could end up quite clean, and much
less disturbing.

Thanks Michal

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Oscar Salvador
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