Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from hotadded memory

Oscar Salvador
2019-04-03T08:34:08Z

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:12:32AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> What does prevent calling somebody arch_add_memory for a range spanning
> multiple memblocks from a driver directly. In other words aren't you
> making assumptions about a future usage based on the qemu usecase?

Well, right now they cannot as it is not exported.
But if we want to do it in the future, then yes, I would have to
be more careful because I made the assumption that hot-add/hot-remove
are working with the same granularity, which is the case right now.

Given said this, I think that something like you said before, giving
the option to the caller to specify whether it wants vmemmaps per the
whole hot-added range or per memblock is a reasonable thing to do.
That way, there will not be a problem working with different granularities
in hot-add/hot-remove operations and we would be on safe side.

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3