linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, acpi memory hotplug, add parameter to disable memory hotplug

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:41:29 -0700
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
To:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linn Crosetto <linn@...com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, acpi memory hotplug, add parameter to disable
 memory hotplug

On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 10:11 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
 :
> >> I think we need a knob manually enable mem-hotplug when specify memmap. But
> >> it is another story.
> >>
> >> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
> >
> > As mentioned, self-NAK.  I have seen a system that I needed to specify
> > memmap=exactmap & had hotplug memory.  I will only keep the acpi_no_memhotplug
> > option in the next version of the patch.
> 
> 
> Your following first patch is simply and makes sense.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=138922019607796&w=2
> 

In this option, it also requires changing kexec-tools to specify the new
option for kdump.  It won't be simpler.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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