From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: wency@cn.fujitsu.com
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Subject: Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:49:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831134956.fec0f681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346148027-24468-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:00:07 +0800
wency@cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
> This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove.
Have you had much review and testing feedback yet?
> The patches can free/remove the following things:
>
> - acpi_memory_info : [RFC PATCH 4/19]
> - /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type} : [RFC PATCH 8/19]
> - iomem_resource : [RFC PATCH 9/19]
> - mem_section and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 10-11, 13-16/19]
> - page table of removed memory : [RFC PATCH 12/19]
> - node and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 18-19/19]
>
> If you find lack of function for physical memory hot-remove, please let me
> know.
I doubt if many people have hardware which permits physical memory
removal? How would you suggest that people with regular hardware can
test these chagnes?
> Known problems:
> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
That's quite a problem! Do you have a description of why this is the
case, and a plan for fixing it?
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: wency@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
liuj97@gmail.com, len.brown@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
paulus@samba.org, cl@linux.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:49:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831134956.fec0f681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346148027-24468-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:00:07 +0800
wency@cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
> This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove.
Have you had much review and testing feedback yet?
> The patches can free/remove the following things:
>
> - acpi_memory_info : [RFC PATCH 4/19]
> - /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type} : [RFC PATCH 8/19]
> - iomem_resource : [RFC PATCH 9/19]
> - mem_section and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 10-11, 13-16/19]
> - page table of removed memory : [RFC PATCH 12/19]
> - node and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 18-19/19]
>
> If you find lack of function for physical memory hot-remove, please let me
> know.
I doubt if many people have hardware which permits physical memory
removal? How would you suggest that people with regular hardware can
test these chagnes?
> Known problems:
> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
That's quite a problem! Do you have a description of why this is the
case, and a plan for fixing it?
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: wency@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
len.brown@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
paulus@samba.org, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, rientjes@google.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, liuj97@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:49:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831134956.fec0f681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346148027-24468-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:00:07 +0800
wency@cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
> This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove.
Have you had much review and testing feedback yet?
> The patches can free/remove the following things:
>
> - acpi_memory_info : [RFC PATCH 4/19]
> - /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type} : [RFC PATCH 8/19]
> - iomem_resource : [RFC PATCH 9/19]
> - mem_section and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 10-11, 13-16/19]
> - page table of removed memory : [RFC PATCH 12/19]
> - node and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 18-19/19]
>
> If you find lack of function for physical memory hot-remove, please let me
> know.
I doubt if many people have hardware which permits physical memory
removal? How would you suggest that people with regular hardware can
test these chagnes?
> Known problems:
> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
That's quite a problem! Do you have a description of why this is the
case, and a plan for fixing it?
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: wency@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, rientjes@google.com,
liuj97@gmail.com, len.brown@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
paulus@samba.org, cl@linux.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:49:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120831134956.fec0f681.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346148027-24468-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:00:07 +0800
wency@cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
> This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove.
Have you had much review and testing feedback yet?
> The patches can free/remove the following things:
>
> - acpi_memory_info : [RFC PATCH 4/19]
> - /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type} : [RFC PATCH 8/19]
> - iomem_resource : [RFC PATCH 9/19]
> - mem_section and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 10-11, 13-16/19]
> - page table of removed memory : [RFC PATCH 12/19]
> - node and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 18-19/19]
>
> If you find lack of function for physical memory hot-remove, please let me
> know.
I doubt if many people have hardware which permits physical memory
removal? How would you suggest that people with regular hardware can
test these chagnes?
> Known problems:
> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
That's quite a problem! Do you have a description of why this is the
case, and a plan for fixing it?
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2012-08-28 10:00 [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 01/20] memory-hotplug: rename remove_memory() to offline_memory()/offline_pages() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 02/20] memory-hotplug: implement offline_memory() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 03/20] memory-hotplug: store the node id in acpi_memory_device wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 04/20] memory-hotplug: offline and remove memory when removing the memory device wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-31 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-03 1:30 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 1:30 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 1:30 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 1:30 ` Wen Congyang
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 05/20] memory-hotplug: check whether memory is present or not wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 06/20] memory-hotplug: export the function acpi_bus_remove() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 07/20] memory-hotplug: call acpi_bus_remove() to remove memory device wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 08/20] memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-31 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-03 5:51 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 5:51 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 5:51 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 5:51 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-04 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-04 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-04 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-05 1:41 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-05 1:41 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-05 1:41 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-05 1:41 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 7:31 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 7:31 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 7:31 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03 7:31 ` Wen Congyang
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 09/20] memory-hotplug: does not release memory region in PAGES_PER_SECTION chunks wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 10/20] memory-hotplug: add memory_block_release wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 11/20] memory-hotplug: remove_memory calls __remove_pages wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 12/20] memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 13/20] memory-hotplug: check page type in get_page_bootmem wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-31 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-04 3:46 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 3:46 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 3:46 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 3:46 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 9:54 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-04 9:54 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-04 9:54 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-04 9:54 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 14/20] memory-hotplug: move register_page_bootmem_info_node and put_page_bootmem for sparse-vmemmap wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 14/20] memory-hotplug: move register_page_bootmem_info_node and put_page_bootmem for s wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 15/20] memory-hotplug: implement register_page_bootmem_info_section of sparse-vmemmap wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 16/20] memory-hotplug: free memmap " wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 17/20] memory_hotplug: clear zone when the memory is removed wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 18/20] memory-hotplug: add node_device_release wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 19/20] memory-hotplug: remove sysfs file of node wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 20/20] memory-hotplug: clear hwpoisoned flag when onlining pages wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` wency
2012-08-31 20:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-08-31 20:49 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-08-31 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-10 1:46 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-10 1:46 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-10 1:46 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-10 1:46 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-10 1:56 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 2:01 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 2:01 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 2:01 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 1:56 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-10 13:52 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-11 0:27 ` Jerry
2012-09-11 0:27 ` Jerry
2012-09-11 1:23 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 1:23 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 1:23 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 1:23 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 5:18 ` Jerry
2012-09-11 5:18 ` Jerry
2012-09-11 5:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 5:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 5:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 5:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 6:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 6:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 6:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-12 6:17 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 1:25 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 1:25 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 1:25 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-11 1:25 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 5:20 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 5:20 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 5:20 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 5:20 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 17:18 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-12 17:18 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-12 17:18 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-12 17:18 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-18 9:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-18 9:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-18 9:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-18 9:39 ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-19 17:02 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-19 17:02 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-19 17:02 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-19 17:02 ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
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