From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 10:59:54 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] x86, mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory" Message-ID: <20150815085954.GC21033@lst.de> References: <20150813031253.36913.29580.stgit@otcpl-skl-sds-2.jf.intel.com> <20150813035005.36913.77364.stgit@otcpl-skl-sds-2.jf.intel.com> <20150814213714.GA3265@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dan Williams Cc: Jerome Glisse , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Boaz Harrosh , Rik van Riel , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Dave Hansen , david , Ingo Molnar , Linux MM , Ingo Molnar , Mel Gorman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ross Zwisler , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , Christoph Hellwig List-ID: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:52:15PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > The idea is that this memory is not meant to be available to the page > allocator and should not count as new memory capacity. We're only > hotplugging it to get struct page coverage. This might need a bigger audit of the max_pfn usages. I remember architectures using it as a decisions for using IOMMUs or similar. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org