Re: PS3: trouble with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP and kexec

[Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Milton Miller wrote:
>> Chris, as you can see, PS3 needs to allocate 1/8th of total initial memory to
>> add any more memory.  Geoff, can you predict what linear address the
>> additional memory will occupy?  Judging from the attempted address toa add,
>> maybe not.   If not, my only thought is to pre-reserve an additional page and
>> consume it on the first add.   Additional adds will likely draw from the first
>> added region, pinning.
> 
> To me it sounds a bit strange that hotplug memory relies on having huge
> contiguous blocks of memory available. If this isn't done very early in the
> boot process, changes are high it will fail.
> 
> Would it be possible to allocate the memory from the newly added block, which
> is guaranteed to be unfragmented?


Yes, this sounds like a cleaner solution than pre-allocating, as the memory is
there and its properties are known.

-Geoff