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

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 26-03-21 09:55:03, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:35:03AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > 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?

memory_block + online_type should be sufficient.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs