similar to: [PATCH] virtio-mem: silence a static checker warning

Each virtio-mem device owns exactly one memory region. It is responsible for adding/removing memory from that memory region on request. When the device driver starts up, the requested amount of memory is queried and then plugged to Linux. On request, further memory can be plugged or unplugged. This patch only implements the plugging part. On x86-64, memory can currently be plugged in 4MB

This series is based on v5.7-rc4. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v4 This is basically a resend of v3 [1], now based on v5.7-rc4 and restested. One patch was reshuffled and two ACKs I missed to add were added. The rebase did not require any modifications to patches. Details about virtio-mem can be found in the cover letter of v2 [2]. A

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v2 I now have acks for all !virtio-mem changes. I'll be happy to get review feedback, testing reports, etc. for the virtio-mem changes. If there are no further comments, I guess this is good to go as a v1 soon. The basic idea of virtio-mem is to provide a

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v3 Patch #1 - #10 where contained in v2 and only contain minor modifications (mostly smaller fixes). The remaining patches are new and contain smaller optimizations. Details about virtio-mem can be found in the cover letter of v2 [1]. A basic QEMU implementation was

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v3 Patch #1 - #10 where contained in v2 and only contain minor modifications (mostly smaller fixes). The remaining patches are new and contain smaller optimizations. Details about virtio-mem can be found in the cover letter of v2 [1]. A basic QEMU implementation was

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-rfc-v4 The basic idea of virtio-mem is to provide a flexible, cross-architecture memory hot(un)plug solution that avoids many limitations imposed by existing technologies, architectures, and interfaces. More details can be found below and in linked material. This

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-rfc-v4 The basic idea of virtio-mem is to provide a flexible, cross-architecture memory hot(un)plug solution that avoids many limitations imposed by existing technologies, architectures, and interfaces. More details can be found below and in linked material. This

Long time no RFC! I finally had time to get the next version of the Linux driver side of virtio-mem into shape, incorporating ideas and feedback from previous discussions. This RFC is based on the series currently on the mm list: - [PATCH 0/3] Remove __online_page_set_limits() - [PATCH v1 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Export generic_online_page() - [PATCH v4 0/8] mm/memory_hotplug: Shrink zones before

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v1 The basic idea of virtio-mem is to provide a flexible, cross-architecture memory hot(un)plug solution that avoids many limitations imposed by existing technologies, architectures, and interfaces. More details can be found below and in linked material. It's

This series is based on latest linux-next. The patches are located at: https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux.git virtio-mem-v1 The basic idea of virtio-mem is to provide a flexible, cross-architecture memory hot(un)plug solution that avoids many limitations imposed by existing technologies, architectures, and interfaces. More details can be found below and in linked material. It's

@Andrew, @Mst, I suggest the whole series (including the virtio-mem change) goes via the -mm tree. Currently, virtio-mem does not really support ZONE_MOVABLE. While it allows to online fully plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE, it does not allow to online partially-plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE and will never consider such memory blocks when unplugging memory. This might be surprising

For 5.10. Patch #1-#4,#6 have RBs or ACKs, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me. This should go via the -mm tree. --- When introducing virtio-mem, the semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE were rather unclear, which is why we special-cased ZONE_MOVABLE such that partially plugged blocks would never end up in ZONE_MOVABLE. Now that the semantics are much clearer (and are documented in patch #6),

For 5.10. Patch #1-#4,#6 have RBs or ACKs, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me. This should go via the -mm tree. --- When introducing virtio-mem, the semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE were rather unclear, which is why we special-cased ZONE_MOVABLE such that partially plugged blocks would never end up in ZONE_MOVABLE. Now that the semantics are much clearer (and are documented in patch #6),

@Andrew can we give this a churn and consider it for v5.9 in case there are no more comments? Patch #1-#4,#6 have RBss or ACKs, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me (and MST is aware). --- When introducing virtio-mem, the semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE were rather unclear, which is why we special-cased ZONE_MOVABLE such that partially plugged blocks would never end up in ZONE_MOVABLE. Now

@Andrew can we give this a churn and consider it for v5.9 in case there are no more comments? Patch #1-#4,#6 have RBss or ACKs, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me (and MST is aware). --- When introducing virtio-mem, the semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE were rather unclear, which is why we special-cased ZONE_MOVABLE such that partially plugged blocks would never end up in ZONE_MOVABLE. Now

@Andrew can we give this a churn and consider it for v5.9 in case there are no more comments? Patch #1-#4 have RB's, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me, patch #6 is just a doc update. --- Currently, virtio-mem does not really support ZONE_MOVABLE. While it allows to online fully plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE, it does not allow to online partially-plugged memory blocks to

@Andrew can we give this a churn and consider it for v5.9 in case there are no more comments? Patch #1-#4 have RB's, patch #5 is virtio-mem stuff maintained by me, patch #6 is just a doc update. --- Currently, virtio-mem does not really support ZONE_MOVABLE. While it allows to online fully plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE, it does not allow to online partially-plugged memory blocks to

Currently, virtio-mem does not really support ZONE_MOVABLE. While it allows to online fully plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE, it does not allow to online partially-plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE and will never consider such memory blocks when unplugging memory. This might be surprising for users (especially, if onlining suddenly fails). Let's support partially plugged memory

Currently, virtio-mem does not really support ZONE_MOVABLE. While it allows to online fully plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE, it does not allow to online partially-plugged memory blocks to ZONE_MOVABLE and will never consider such memory blocks when unplugging memory. This might be surprising for users (especially, if onlining suddenly fails). Let's support partially plugged memory

Virtio-mem managed memory is always detected and added by the virtio-mem driver, never using something like the firmware-provided memory map. This is the case after an ordinary system reboot, and has to be guaranteed after kexec. Especially, virtio-mem added memory resources can contain inaccessible parts ("unblocked memory blocks"), blindly forwarding them to a kexec kernel is