Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Support dynamic (de)configuration of memory

From: Heiko Carstens

Date: Sun Oct 12 2025 - 12:53:24 EST


On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:51:43 +0200 Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Patchset provides a new interface for dynamic configuration and
> > deconfiguration of hotplug memory on s390, allowing with/without
> > memmap_on_memory support. It is a follow up on the discussion with David
> > when introducing memmap_on_memory support for s390 and support dynamic
> > (de)configuration of memory:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > arch/s390/mm/pgalloc.c | 2 +
> > arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 21 +--
> > drivers/base/memory.c | 23 +--
> > drivers/s390/char/sclp_mem.c | 288 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > include/linux/memory.h | 9 --
> > include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 18 +--
> > include/linux/memremap.h | 1 -
> > mm/memory_hotplug.c | 17 +-
> > mm/sparse.c | 3 +-
> > 9 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
>
> I can add this to mm.git in the usual fashion, but the s390 tree would
> be a better place from a testing point of view?

It is not only about the testing point of view. We also want the
correspondig util-linux changes upstream - there may (or much more likely
may not) feedback which could require additional changes. Which means we
would going back and forth.

I think it is easiest to move forward with the s390 tree because of this.