linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mm-unstable] mm/demotion: Assign correct memory type for multiple dax devices with the same node affinity

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:00:52 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Wei Xu <weixugc@...gle.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Tim C Chen <tim.c.chen@...el.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@...wei.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, jvgediya.oss@...il.com,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable] mm/demotion: Assign correct memory type for
 multiple dax devices with the same node affinity

On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:32:24 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:

> With multiple dax devices having the same node affinity, the kernel wrongly assigned
> default_dram memory type to some devices after the memory hotplug operation. Fix this by
> not clearing node_memory_types on the dax device remove.
> 
> The current kernel cleared node_memory_type on successful removal of a dax device.
> But then we can have multiple dax devices with the same node affinity. Clearing the
> node_memory_type results in assigning other dax devices to the default dram type when
> we bring them online.

Thanks, I added this as a fix against "mm/demotion/dax/kmem: set node's
abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE".

Reworked this patch to apply, reworked all the subsequent patches as
a result of applying that, checked that this patch as-sent cleanly reverts
when all are applied, checked that everything compiled at each step of
the resulting series.