From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.or
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86, mm: make split_mem_range() more easy to read
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:25:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328002525.GA17122@richard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1903280111480.1789@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 01:16:08AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>Wei,
>
>On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Wei Yang wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 03:29:04PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> >Note, it's a combo of changes (including your patch 1/6) and needs to be
>> >split up. It would be nice if you have time to split it up into separate
>> >patches, add proper changelogs and test the heck out of it on both 32 and
>> >64 bit. If you don't have time, please let me know.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions :-)
>>
>> Just get my head up, will try to understand the code and test on both
>> arch.
>>
>> BTW, do you have some suggestions in the test? Currently I just use
>> bootup test. Basicly I think this is fine to cover the cases. Maybe you
>> would have some better idea.
>
>This is about bootup in the first place. After that memory hotplug which
>you can emulate with qemu/kvm IIRC.
>
Ok, this is not difficult.
>The important part about testing is to have systems which expose a wide
>variety memory layouts.
>
May be I can add some test with nvdimm.
>Thanks,
>
> tglx
--
Wei Yang
Help you, Help me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-12 2:12 [PATCH 0/6] x86, mm: refine split_mem_range a little Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86, mm: remove second argument of split_mem_range() Wei Yang
2019-03-24 14:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-25 1:16 ` Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86, mm: remove check in save_mr Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, mm: add comment for split_mem_range to help understanding Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86, mm: make split_mem_range() more easy to read Wei Yang
2019-03-24 14:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-27 22:05 ` Wei Yang
2019-03-28 0:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-28 0:25 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2019-03-28 3:35 ` Wei Yang
2019-03-28 7:20 ` Wei Yang
2019-03-28 8:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-29 3:38 ` Wei Yang
[not found] ` <20190328065117.GA6202@richard>
2019-03-28 8:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-12 3:08 ` Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, mm: skip 1G range if the range doesn't span PUD Wei Yang
2019-02-12 2:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86, mm: x86, mm: jump to split only 4K range when range doesn't span PMD Wei Yang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20190328002525.GA17122@richard \
--to=richardw.yang@linux.intel.com \
--cc=dave.hansen@linux.intel.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=luto@kernel.org \
--cc=peterz@infradead.or \
--cc=richard.weiyang@gmail.com \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox