linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm, memory_hotplug: remove zone onlining restriction

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:35:07 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>,
        qiuxishi@...wei.com, Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@....com>,
        slaoub@...il.com, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
        Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
        Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] mm, memory_hotplug: remove zone onlining restriction

Hi,
I am sending this as an RFC because this hasn't seen a lot of testing
yet but I would like to see whether the semantic I came up with (see
patch 2) is sensible. This work should help Joonsoo with his CMA zone
based approach when reusing MOVABLE zone. I think it will also help to
remove more code from the memory hotplug (e.g. zone shrinking).

Patch 1 restores original memoryXY/valid_zones semantic wrt zone
ordering. This can be merged without patch 2 which removes the zone
overlap restriction and defines a semantic for the default onlining. See
more in the patch.

Questions, concerns, objections?

Shortlog
Michal Hocko (2):
      mm, memory_hotplug: display allowed zones in the preferred ordering
      mm, memory_hotplug: remove zone restrictions

Diffstat
 drivers/base/memory.c          | 30 ++++++++++-----
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  2 +-
 mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 87 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)