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2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 20:43, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:14 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01.05.20 20:03, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 01.05.20
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 20:43, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 11:14 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01.05.20 20:03, Dan Williams wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 01.05.20
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 20:03, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 01.05.20 19:39, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01.05.20
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 20:03, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> On 01.05.20 19:39, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01.05.20
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 01.05.20 19:39, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01.05.20 18:56, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On 01.05.20 19:45, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 01.05.20 19:39, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01.05.20 18:56, Dan Williams wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On
2020 Apr 30
2
[PATCH v1 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_DRIVER_MANAGED
On 29.04.20 18:08, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Some paravirtualized devices that add memory via add_memory() and
> friends (esp. virtio-mem) don't want to create entries in
> /sys/firmware/memmap/ - primarily to hinder kexec from adding this
> memory to the boot memmap of the kexec kernel.
>
> In fact, such memory is never exposed via the firmware (e.g., e820), but
> only
2020 Apr 30
2
[PATCH v1 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_DRIVER_MANAGED
On 29.04.20 18:08, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Some paravirtualized devices that add memory via add_memory() and
> friends (esp. virtio-mem) don't want to create entries in
> /sys/firmware/memmap/ - primarily to hinder kexec from adding this
> memory to the boot memmap of the kexec kernel.
>
> In fact, such memory is never exposed via the firmware (e.g., e820), but
> only
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01.05.20 00:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Why does the firmware map support hotplug entries?
> >>
> >> I assume:
> >>
> >> The
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01.05.20 00:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Why does the firmware map support hotplug entries?
> >>
> >> I assume:
> >>
> >> The
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01.05.20 18:56, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01.05.20 00:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
2020 May 01
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:21 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 01.05.20 18:56, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:34 AM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01.05.20 00:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
2004 Jul 15
3
Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.
Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> List,
>
> I think I found a bug here because I can repeatably get the same kernel
> (checked with md5sum) to decompress and to fail with the error:
>
> invalid compressed format (err=2)
>
> --System halted
>
>
> Here is how I can reproduce the problem:
>
> Boot 2.6.8-rc1
> Run md5sum on 2.6.8-rc1 kernel
>
2020 Apr 30
5
[PATCH v2 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow to not create firmware memmap entries
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
2020 Apr 30
3
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> writes:
> Some devices/drivers that add memory via add_memory() and friends (e.g.,
> dax/kmem, but also virtio-mem in the future) don't want to create entries
> in /sys/firmware/memmap/ - primarily to hinder kexec from adding this
> memory to the boot memmap of the kexec kernel.
>
> In fact, such memory is never exposed via the
2020 Apr 30
3
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> writes:
> Some devices/drivers that add memory via add_memory() and friends (e.g.,
> dax/kmem, but also virtio-mem in the future) don't want to create entries
> in /sys/firmware/memmap/ - primarily to hinder kexec from adding this
> memory to the boot memmap of the kexec kernel.
>
> In fact, such memory is never exposed via the
2019 Oct 16
3
[PATCH RFC v3 6/9] mm: Allow to offline PageOffline() pages with a reference count of 0
On Wed 16-10-19 14:50:30, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 16.10.19 13:43, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 19-09-19 16:22:25, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts
> > > were unplugged, especially, to later offline and remove completely
> > > unplugged memory blocks. The important part is that
2019 Oct 16
3
[PATCH RFC v3 6/9] mm: Allow to offline PageOffline() pages with a reference count of 0
On Wed 16-10-19 14:50:30, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 16.10.19 13:43, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 19-09-19 16:22:25, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts
> > > were unplugged, especially, to later offline and remove completely
> > > unplugged memory blocks. The important part is that
2020 Apr 30
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why does the firmware map support hotplug entries?
>
> I assume:
>
> The firmware memmap was added primarily for x86-64 kexec (and still, is
> mostly used on x86-64 only IIRC). There, we had ACPI hotplug. When DIMMs
> get hotplugged on real HW, they get added to e820.
2020 Apr 30
2
[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why does the firmware map support hotplug entries?
>
> I assume:
>
> The firmware memmap was added primarily for x86-64 kexec (and still, is
> mostly used on x86-64 only IIRC). There, we had ACPI hotplug. When DIMMs
> get hotplugged on real HW, they get added to e820.