linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] memory: introduce an option to force onlining of hotplug memory

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:28:21 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
        Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] memory: introduce an option to force onlining of
 hotplug memory

On Thu 23-07-20 19:39:54, David Hildenbrand wrote:
[...]
> Yeah, might require some code churn. It just feels wrong to involve
> buddy concepts (e.g., onlining pages, calling memory notifiers, exposing
> memory block devices) and introducing hacks (forced onlining) just to
> get a memmap+identity mapping+iomem resource. I think reserving such a
> region during boot as suggested is the easiest approach, but I am
> *absolutely* not an expert on all these XEN-specific things :)

I am late to the discussion but FTR I completely agree.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs