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[73.69.118.222]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m85sm5426529qke.33.2021.01.21.19.38.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:38:06 -0800 (PST) From: Pavel Tatashin To: pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz, mhocko@suse.com, david@redhat.com, osalvador@suse.de, dan.j.williams@intel.com, sashal@kernel.org, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com, jgg@ziepe.ca, peterz@infradead.org, mgorman@suse.de, willy@infradead.org, rientjes@google.com, jhubbard@nvidia.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, ira.weiny@intel.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v7 10/14] memory-hotplug.rst: add a note about ZONE_MOVABLE and page pinning Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:37:44 -0500 Message-Id: <20210122033748.924330-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210122033748.924330-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> References: <20210122033748.924330-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentat= ion/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 5c4432c96c4b..c6618f99f765 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,15 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block bel= ongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. =20 +.. note:: + Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDM= A and + vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore,= memory + hot remove. Pinned pages cannot reside on ZONE_MOVABLE, to guarantee = that + memory can still get hot removed - be aware that pinning can fail eve= n if + there is plenty of free memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. In addition, using + ZONE_MOVABLE might make page pinning more expensive, because pages ha= ve to be + migrated off that zone first. + .. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory: =20 How to offline memory --=20 2.25.1