From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx136.postini.com [74.125.245.136]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D0466B0070 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:15:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50B59F5B.5030400@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:21:31 +0800 From: Wen Congyang MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option References: <1353667445-7593-1-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> <50B42F32.4050107@gmail.com> <50B58965.7040703@cn.fujitsu.com> <50B58CA9.9010606@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: <50B58CA9.9010606@huawei.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Jiang Liu Cc: Tang Chen , wujianguo , hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rob@landley.net, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, yinghai@kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, mgorman@suse.de, rientjes@google.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org At 11/28/2012 12:01 PM, Jiang Liu Wrote: > On 2012-11-28 11:47, Tang Chen wrote: >> On 11/27/2012 11:10 AM, wujianguo wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tang, >>> DMA address can't be set as movable, if some one boot kernel with >>> movablecore_map=4G@0xa00000 or other memory region that contains DMA address, >>> system maybe boot failed. Should this case be handled or mentioned >>> in the change log and kernel-parameters.txt? >> >> Hi Wu, >> >> I think we can use MAX_DMA_PFN and MAX_DMA32_PFN to prevent setting DMA >> address as movable. Just ignore the address lower than them, and set >> the rest as movable. How do you think ? >> >> And, since we cannot figure out the minimum of memory kernel needs, I >> think for now, we can just add some warning into kernel-parameters.txt. >> >> Thanks. :) > On one other OS, there is a mechanism to dynamically convert pages from > movable zones into normal zones. The OS auto does it? Or the user coverts it? We can convert pages from movable zones into normal zones by the following interface: echo online_kernel >/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state We have posted a patchset to implement it, and it is in mm tree now. Thanks Wen Congyang > > Regards! > Gerry > >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jianguo Wu >>> >> >> . >> > > > -- 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