linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added memory range

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Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:11:51 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Allocate memmap from the added
 memory range

On Fri 26-03-21 09:55:03, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:35:03AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > Yes this is much better! Just a minor suggestion would be to push
> > memory_block all the way to memory_block_online (it oline a memory
> > block). I would also slightly prefer to provide 2 helpers that would make
> > it clear that this is to reserve/cleanup the vmemamp space (defined in
> > the memory_hotplug proper).
> 
> Glad to hear that!
> By pushing memory_block all the way to memory_block_{online,offline}, you
> mean passing the memblock struct together with nr_vmemmap_pages,
> only_type and nid to memory_block_{offline,online}, and derive in there
> the start_pfn and nr_pages?

memory_block + online_type should be sufficient.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs