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Message-ID: <41477111-dc5d-d0ef-7d4a-ca1c6336bbbf@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:39:00 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        corbet@....net, mike.kravetz@...cle.com, osalvador@...e.de,
        paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, duanxiongchun@...edance.com, smuchun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm: memory_hotplug: make hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap
 compatible with memmap_on_memory

On 20.06.22 13:06, Muchun Song wrote:
> For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the
> feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory, and hugetlb_free_vmemmap
> takes precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. However, someone
> wants to make memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory takes precedence over
> hugetlb_free_vmemmap since memmap_on_memory makes it more likely to
> succeed memory hotplug in close-to-OOM situations.  So the decision
> of making hugetlb_free_vmemmap take precedence is not wise and elegant.
> The proper approach is to have hugetlb_vmemmap.c do the check whether
> the section which the HugeTLB pages belong to can be optimized.  If
> the section's vmemmap pages are allocated from the added memory block
> itself, hugetlb_free_vmemmap should refuse to optimize the vmemmap,
> otherwise, do the optimization.  Then both kernel parameters are
> compatible.  So this patch introduces VmemmapSelfHosted to mask any
> non-optimizable vmemmap pages. The hugetlb_vmemmap can use this flag
> to detect if a vmemmap page can be optimized.
> 

Makes sense to me and looks good

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>



-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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