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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
	Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
	Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 62/95] mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 19:54:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190507175419.GW31017@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190507174514.GI1747@sasha-vm>

On Tue 07-05-19 13:45:14, Sasha Levin wrote:
[...]
> We're going to have (quite a) large amount of systems with "weird"
> memory layouts that do memory hotplug quite frequently in production, so
> this whole "tends to work usually" thing kinda scares me.

Memory hotplug is simply not production ready for those cases,
unfortunately. It tends to work just fine with properly section
aligned systems with memory being in the movable zones or for zone
device. Everything beyond that is kinda long way to get there...
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-07 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20190507053826.31622-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2019-05-07  5:37 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 21/95] mm: fix inactive list balancing between NUMA nodes and cgroups Sasha Levin
2019-05-07  5:37 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 62/95] mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section Sasha Levin
2019-05-07 16:31   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-05-07 16:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-07 17:02       ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-07 17:13         ` Gerald Schaefer
2019-05-07 17:15         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-07 17:18           ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-07 17:32             ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-07 17:36               ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-05-07 17:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-07 17:51                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-07 17:43                 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-07 17:45                 ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-07 17:54                   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-05-08 11:04             ` Gerald Schaefer
2019-05-07 17:31           ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-07 16:58     ` Sasha Levin
2019-05-07  5:38 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 71/95] Revert "mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section" Sasha Levin
2019-05-07 17:25   ` Alexander Duyck
2019-05-07  5:38 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 86/95] mm/memory.c: fix modifying of page protection by insert_pfn() Sasha Levin

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