linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 0/3] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 09:53:43 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, mark.rutland@....com, mhocko@...e.com,
        ira.weiny@...el.com, david@...hat.com, cai@....pw,
        logang@...tatee.com, james.morse@....com, cpandya@...eaurora.org,
        arunks@...eaurora.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, osalvador@...e.de,
        ard.biesheuvel@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 0/3] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove



On 05/30/2019 03:36 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 May 2019 14:46:24 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com> wrote:
> 
>> This series enables memory hot remove on arm64 after fixing a memblock
>> removal ordering problem in generic __remove_memory() and one possible
>> arm64 platform specific kernel page table race condition. This series
>> is based on latest v5.2-rc2 tag.
> 
> Unfortunately this series clashes syntactically and semantically with
> David Hildenbrand's series "mm/memory_hotplug: Factor out memory block
> devicehandling".  Could you and David please figure out what we should
> do here?
> 

Hello Andrew,

I was able to apply the above mentioned V3 series [1] from David with some changes
listed below which tests positively on arm64. These changes assume that the arm64
hot-remove series (current V5) gets applied first.

Changes to David's series

A) Please drop (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10962565/) [v3,04/11]

	- arch_remove_memory() is already being added through hot-remove series

B) Rebase (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10962575/) [v3, 06/11]

	- arm64 hot-remove series adds CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE wrapper around
	  arch_remove_memory() which can be dropped in the rebased patch

C) Rebase (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10962589/) [v3, 09/11]

	- hot-remove series moves arch_remove_memory() before memblock_[free|remove]()
	- So remove_memory_block_devices() should be moved before arch_remove_memory()
	  in it's new position

David,

Please do let me know if the plan sounds good or you have some other suggestions.

- Anshuman

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/list/?series=123133