Displaying 20 results from an estimated 1000 matches similar to: "[PATCH v1 0/5] mm/memory_hotplug: selective merging of system ram resources"
2020 Sep 11
13
[PATCH v4 0/8] selective merging of system ram resources
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
2020 Sep 11
13
[PATCH v4 0/8] selective merging of system ram resources
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
2020 Sep 08
14
[PATCH v2 0/7] mm/memory_hotplug: selective merging of system ram resources
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
2020 Sep 08
14
[PATCH v2 0/7] mm/memory_hotplug: selective merging of system ram resources
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
2020 Sep 10
9
[PATCH v3 0/7] mm/memory_hotplug: selective merging of system ram resources
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
2020 Jul 31
6
[PATCH RFCv1 0/5] mm/memory_hotplug: selective merging of memory resources
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
2020 Apr 29
4
[PATCH v1 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Make virtio-mem play nicely with kexec-tools
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
2020 Sep 22
1
[PATCH] kernel/resource: Fix use of ternary condition in release_mem_region_adjustable
Clang warns:
kernel/resource.c:1281:53: warning: operator '?:' has lower precedence
than '|'; '|' will be evaluated first
[-Wbitwise-conditional-parentheses]
new_res = alloc_resource(GFP_KERNEL | alloc_nofail ? __GFP_NOFAIL : 0);
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
kernel/resource.c:1281:53: note: place parentheses around the '|'
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 Sep 02
1
[PATCH v1 4/5] xen/balloon: try to merge system ram resources
On 21.08.20 12:34, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's reuse the new mechanism to merge system ram resources below the
> root. We are the only one hotplugging system ram (e.g., DIMMs don't apply),
> so this is safe to be used.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky
2020 Aug 21
0
[PATCH v1 1/5] kernel/resource: make release_mem_region_adjustable() never fail
Let's make sure splitting a resource on memory hotunplug will never fail.
This will become more relevant once we merge selected system ram
resources - then, we'll trigger that case more frequently on memory
hotunplug.
In general, this function is already unlikely to fail. When we remove
memory, we free up quite a lot of metadata (memmap, page tables, memory
block device, etc.). The only
2020 Sep 11
0
[PATCH v4 1/8] kernel/resource: make release_mem_region_adjustable() never fail
Let's make sure splitting a resource on memory hotunplug will never fail.
This will become more relevant once we merge selected System RAM
resources - then, we'll trigger that case more often on memory hotunplug.
In general, this function is already unlikely to fail. When we remove
memory, we free up quite a lot of metadata (memmap, page tables, memory
block device, etc.). The only reason
2020 Jul 30
7
[PATCH v2 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
@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
2020 Aug 04
8
[PATCH v3 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
@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.
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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
2020 Aug 04
8
[PATCH v3 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
@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
2020 Aug 16
9
[PATCH v5 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
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.
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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),
2020 Aug 16
9
[PATCH v5 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
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),
2020 Aug 04
8
[PATCH v4 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
@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
2020 Aug 04
8
[PATCH v4 0/6] mm / virtio-mem: support ZONE_MOVABLE
@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
2020 Sep 09
1
[PATCH v2 2/7] kernel/resource: move and rename IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:10:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED currently uses an unused PnP bit, which is
> always set to 0 by hardware. This is far from beautiful (and confusing),
> and the bit only applies to SYSRAM. So let's move it out of the
> bus-specific (PnP) defined bits.
>
> We'll add another SYSRAM specific bit soon. If we