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On 4/30/20 3:29 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Currently, when adding memory, we create entries in /sys/firmware/memmap/ > as "System RAM". This does not reflect the reality and will lead to > kexec-tools to add that memory to the fixed-up initial memmap for a > kexec kernel (loaded via kexec_load()). The memory will be considered > initial System RAM by the kexec kernel.

We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. mergeable. Prepare for that. This patch is based on a similar patch by Oscar Salvador: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625075227.15193-3-osalvador at suse.de Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu at kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com> # Xen related part Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. mergeable. Prepare for that. This patch is based on a similar patch by Oscar Salvador: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625075227.15193-3-osalvador at suse.de Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu at kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams

Hi All Back in August there was a report of these errors popping up in dmesg, and as far as I can tell it's still unresolved even in the latest kernel. System RAM resource [mem 0xc8000000-0xcfffffff] cannot be added xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() failed: -17 On this example its running 3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 To replicate this just disable Dom0 memory

This is the follow up of [1]: [PATCH v1 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Make virtio-mem play nicely with kexec-tools I realized that this is not only helpful for virtio-mem, but also for dax/kmem - it's a fix for that use case (see patch #3) of persistent memory. Also, while testing, I discovered that kexec-tools will *not* add dax/kmem memory (anything not directly under the root when parsing

My /var/log/messages log is being flooded with kernel messages showing the following messages Aug 1 11:22:52 host43 kernel: System RAM resource 48000000 - 4fffffff cannot be added Aug 1 11:22:52 host43 kernel: xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() failed: ?17 Doing a search I found a thread from xen-devel that talks a bit about it. I?m not sure if this is related to the same

Currently, when adding memory, we create entries in /sys/firmware/memmap/ as "System RAM". This does not reflect the reality and will lead to kexec-tools to add that memory to the fixed-up initial memmap for a kexec kernel (loaded via kexec_load()). The memory will be considered initial System RAM by the kexec kernel. We should let the kexec kernel decide how to use that memory - just

Hi, > biting this behavior. The specific > error I''m seeing is > > xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() failed: -17 > System RAM resource 88000000 - 8fffffff cannot be added > > This is a lab system that I''m actively working on so I can give > whatever info you need or run whatever. Below is the xl info and xl > dmesg output [...]

This series is based on [1]: [PATCH v2 00/10] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory That will hopefull get picked up soon, rebased to -next. The following patches were reverted from -next [2]: [PATCH 0/3] kexec/memory_hotplug: Prevent removal and accidental use As discussed in that thread, they should be reverted from -next already. In theory, if people agree, we could take the first two patches

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. > mergeable. Prepare for that. What are these random "flags", and how do we know what should be passed to them? Why not make this an enumerated type so that we know it all works properly, like the GPF_* flags are? Passing around a random

On 09.09.20 09:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. >> mergeable. Prepare for that. > > What are these random "flags", and how do we know what should be passed > to them? > > Why not make this an enumerated type so that we

On 09.09.20 13:24, Michael Ellerman wrote: > David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> writes: >> On 09.09.20 09:17, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. >>>> mergeable. Prepare for that. >>> >>> What

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > We soon want to pass flags, e.g., to mark added System RAM resources. > mergeable. Prepare for that. What are these random "flags", and how do we know what should be passed to them? Why not make this an enumerated type so that we know it all works properly, like the GPF_* flags are? Passing around a random

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where

Hi David, I love your patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on next-20200909] [cannot apply to mmotm/master hnaz-linux-mm/master xen-tip/linux-next powerpc/next linus/master v5.9-rc4 v5.9-rc3 v5.9-rc2 v5.9-rc4] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where

Hi, I have encountered an apparently benign error on two systems where the dom0 kernel log is flooded with messages like: [52482.163855] System RAM resource [mem 0x1b8000000-0x1bfffffff] cannot be added [52482.163860] xen_balloon: reserve_additional_memory: add_memory() failed: -17 The first line is from drivers/xen/xen-balloon.c, the second from mm/memory_hotplug.c The trigger for the