linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:47:06 +0800
From:	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	wujianguo <wujianguo106@...il.com>, <hpa@...or.com>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <rob@...dley.net>,
	<isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>, <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	<wency@...fujitsu.com>, <linfeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	<jiang.liu@...wei.com>, <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	<mgorman@...e.de>, <rientjes@...gle.com>, <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Add movablecore_map boot option

On 2012/11/27 13:43, Tang Chen wrote:

> On 11/27/2012 11:10 AM, wujianguo wrote:
>> On 2012-11-23 18:44, Tang Chen wrote:
>>> [What we are doing]
>>> This patchset provide a boot option for user to specify ZONE_MOVABLE memory
>>> map for each node in the system.
>>>
>>> movablecore_map=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
>>>
>>
>> Hi Tang,
>>     DMA address can't be set as movable, if some one boot kernel with
>> movablecore_map=4G@...00000 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,
> 
> Right, DMA address can't be set as movable. And I should have mentioned
> it in the doc more clear. :)
> 
> Actually, the situation is not only for DMA address. Because we limited
> the memblock allocation, even if users did not specified the DMA
> address, but set too much memory as movable, which means there was too
> little memory for kernel to use, kernel will also fail to boot.
> 
> I added the following info into doc, but obviously it was not clear
> enough. :)
> +        If kernelcore or movablecore is also specified,
> +        movablecore_map will have higher priority to be
> +        satisfied. So the administrator should be careful that
> +        the amount of movablecore_map areas are not too large.
> +        Otherwise kernel won't have enough memory to start.
> 
> 
> And about how to fix it, as you said, we can handle the situation if
> user specified DMA address as movable. But how to handle "too little
> memory for kernel to start" case ?  Is there any info about how much
> at least memory kernel needs ?
> 

As I know, bootmem is mostly used by page structs when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y.
But it is hard to calculate how much bootmem is needed exactly.

> 
> Thanks for the comments. :)
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jianguo Wu
>>
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 



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