linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v4 00/13] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory

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Message-ID: <95c6ef21-23e0-c768-999d-3af7f69d02d3@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jun 2020 18:46:26 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v4 00/13] virtio-mem: paravirtualized memory



在 2020/6/5 下午6:05, David Hildenbrand 写道:
>> I guess I know what's happening here. In case we only have DMA memory
>> when booting, we don't reserve swiotlb buffers. Once we hotplug memory
>> and online ZONE_NORMAL, we don't have any swiotlb DMA bounce buffers to
>> map such PFNs (total 0 (slots), used 0 (slots)).
>>
>> Can you try with "swiotlb=force" on the kernel cmdline?
> Alternative, looks like you can specify "-m 2G,maxmem=16G,slots=1", to
> create proper ACPI tables that indicate hotpluggable memory. (I'll have
> to look into QEMU to figure out to always indicate hotpluggable memory
> that way).
> 


That works too. Yes, better resolved in qemu, maybe. :)

Thanks!