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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: sharath.k.bhat@linux.intel.com, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix movable_node kernel command-line
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:52:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ed8144f-4447-e2de-47f7-ea1fc16f0b25@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171023195637.GE12198@linux.intel.com>

On 10/23/2017 12:56 PM, Sharath Kumar Bhat wrote:
>> I am sorry for being dense here but why cannot you mark that memory
>> hotplugable? I assume you are under the control to set attributes of the
>> memory to the guest.
> When I said two OS's I meant multi-kernel environment sharing the same
> hardware and not VMs. So we do not have the control to mark the memory
> hotpluggable as done by BIOS through SRAT.

If you are going as far as to pass in custom kernel command-line
arguments, there's a bunch of other fun stuff you can do.  ACPI table
overrides come to mind.

> This facility can be used by platform/BIOS vendors to provide a Linux
> compatible environment without modifying the underlying platform firmware.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-23 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-20 23:32 [PATCH] mm: fix movable_node kernel command-line Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 12:52 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 16:03   ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 16:15     ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 17:14       ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 17:20         ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 17:35           ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 17:49             ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 18:48               ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 19:04                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 19:25                   ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 19:35                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-23 19:56                       ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-23 21:52                         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2017-10-24  1:06                           ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-24  7:19                             ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-25  0:53                               ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-25  6:38                                 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-25 22:01                                   ` Sharath Kumar Bhat
2017-10-26  7:36                                     ` Michal Hocko

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