linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range for sparse-vmemmap

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jun 2019 10:28:41 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mhocko@...e.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, pasha.tatashin@...een.com,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, david@...hat.com, vbabka@...e.cz,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added
 memory range for sparse-vmemmap

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 01:47:32PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Hello Oscar,
> 
> On 06/25/2019 01:22 PM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > index 93ed0df4df79..d4b5661fa6b6 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> > @@ -765,7 +765,10 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
> >  		if (pmd_none(READ_ONCE(*pmdp))) {
> >  			void *p = NULL;
> >  
> > -			p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
> > +			if (altmap)
> > +				p = altmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, altmap);
> > +			else
> > +				p = vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(PMD_SIZE, node);
> >  			if (!p)
> >  				return -ENOMEM;
> 
> Is this really required to be part of this series ? I have an ongoing work
> (reworked https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10882781/) enabling altmap
> support on arm64 during memory hot add and remove path which is waiting on
> arm64 memory-hot remove to be merged first.

Hi Anshuman,

I can drop this chunk in the next version.
No problem.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3