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Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] resource: Merge resources on a node when hot-adding memory To: Rashmica Gupta , Andrew Morton Cc: toshi.kani@hpe.com, tglx@linutronix.de, bp@suse.de, brijesh.singh@amd.com, thomas.lendacky@amd.com, jglisse@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, malat@debian.org, Bjorn Helgaas , osalvador@techadventures.net, yasu.isimatu@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Rapoport References: <20180809025409.31552-1-rashmica.g@gmail.com> <20180809181224.0b7417e51215565dbda9f665@linux-foundation.org> From: Vlastimil Babka Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=vbabka@suse.cz; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsFNBFZdmxYBEADsw/SiUSjB0dM+vSh95UkgcHjzEVBlby/Fg+g42O7LAEkCYXi/vvq31JTB KxRWDHX0R2tgpFDXHnzZcQywawu8eSq0LxzxFNYMvtB7sV1pxYwej2qx9B75qW2plBs+7+YB 87tMFA+u+L4Z5xAzIimfLD5EKC56kJ1CsXlM8S/LHcmdD9Ctkn3trYDNnat0eoAcfPIP2OZ+ 9oe9IF/R28zmh0ifLXyJQQz5ofdj4bPf8ecEW0rhcqHfTD8k4yK0xxt3xW+6Exqp9n9bydiy tcSAw/TahjW6yrA+6JhSBv1v2tIm+itQc073zjSX8OFL51qQVzRFr7H2UQG33lw2QrvHRXqD Ot7ViKam7v0Ho9wEWiQOOZlHItOOXFphWb2yq3nzrKe45oWoSgkxKb97MVsQ+q2SYjJRBBH4 8qKhphADYxkIP6yut/eaj9ImvRUZZRi0DTc8xfnvHGTjKbJzC2xpFcY0DQbZzuwsIZ8OPJCc LM4S7mT25NE5kUTG/TKQCk922vRdGVMoLA7dIQrgXnRXtyT61sg8PG4wcfOnuWf8577aXP1x 6mzw3/jh3F+oSBHb/GcLC7mvWreJifUL2gEdssGfXhGWBo6zLS3qhgtwjay0Jl+kza1lo+Cv BB2T79D4WGdDuVa4eOrQ02TxqGN7G0Biz5ZLRSFzQSQwLn8fbwARAQABzSFWbGFzdGltaWwg QmFia2EgPHZiYWJrYUBzdXNlLmNvbT7CwZcEEwEKAEECGwMFCwkIBwMFFQoJCAsFFgIDAQAC HgECF4ACGQEWIQSpQNQ0mSwujpkQPVAiT6fnzIKmZAUCWi/zTwUJBbOLuQAKCRAiT6fnzIKm ZIpED/4jRN/6LKZZIT4R2xoou0nJkBGVA3nfb+mUMgi3uwn/zC+o6jjc3ShmP0LQ0cdeuSt/ t2ytstnuARTFVqZT4/IYzZgBsLM8ODFY5vGfPw00tsZMIfFuVPQX3xs0XgLEHw7/1ZCVyJVr mTzYmV3JruwhMdUvIzwoZ/LXjPiEx1MRdUQYHAWwUfsl8lUZeu2QShL3KubR1eH6lUWN2M7t VcokLsnGg4LTajZzZfq2NqCKEQMY3JkAmOu/ooPTrfHCJYMF/5dpi8YF1CkQF/PVbnYbPUuh dRM0m3NzPtn5DdyfFltJ7fobGR039+zoCo6dFF9fPltwcyLlt1gaItfX5yNbOjX3aJSHY2Vc A5T+XAVC2sCwj0lHvgGDz/dTsMM9Ob/6rRJANlJPRWGYk3WVWnbgW8UejCWtn1FkiY/L/4qJ UsqkId8NkkVdVAenCcHQmOGjRQYTpe6Cf4aQ4HGNDeWEm3H8Uq9vmHhXXcPLkxBLRbGDSHyq vUBVaK+dAwAsXn/5PlGxw1cWtur1ep7RDgG3vVQDhIOpAXAg6HULjcbWpBEFaoH720oyGmO5 kV+yHciYO3nPzz/CZJzP5Ki7Q1zqBb/U6gib2at5Ycvews+vTueYO+rOb9sfD8BFTK386LUK uce7E38owtgo/V2GV4LMWqVOy1xtCB6OAUfnGDU2EM7ATQRbGTU1AQgAn0H6UrFiWcovkh6E XVcl+SeqyO6JHOPm+e9Wu0Vw+VIUvXZVUVVQLa1PQDUi6j00ChlcR66g9/V0sPIcSutacPKf dKYOBvzd4rlhL8rfrdEsQw5ApZxrA8kYZVMhFmBRKAa6wos25moTlMKpCWzTH84+WO5+ziCT sTUZASAToz3RdunTD+vQcHj0GqNTPAHK63sfbAB2I0BslZkXkY1RLb/YhuA6E7JyEd2pilZO rIuBGl/5q2qSakgnAVFWFBR/DO27JuAksYnq+aH8vI0xGvwn75KqSk4UzAkDzWSmO4ZHuahK tQgZNsMYV+PGayRBX9b9zbldzopoLBdqHc4njQARAQABwsF8BBgBCgAmFiEEqUDUNJksLo6Z ED1QIk+n58yCpmQFAlsZNTUCGwwFCQPCZwAACgkQIk+n58yCpmQ83g/9Frg1sRMdGPn98zV+ O2eC3h0p5f/oxxQ8MhG5znwHoW4JDG2TuxfcQuz7X7Dd5JWscjlw4VFJ2DD+IrDAGLHwPhCr RyfKalnrbYokvbClM9EuU1oUuh7k+Sg5ECNXEsamW9AiWGCaKWNDdHre3Lf4xl+RJWxghOVW RiUdpLA/a3yDvJNVr6rxkDHQ1P24ZZz/VKDyP+6g8aty2aWEU0YFNjI+rqYZb2OppDx6fdma YnLDcIfDFnkVlDmpznnGCyEqLLyMS3GH52AH13zMT9L9QYgT303+r6QQpKBIxAwn8Jg8dAlV OLhgeHXKr+pOQdFf6iu2sXlUR4MkO/5KWM1K0jFR2ug8Pb3aKOhowVMBT64G0TXhQ/kX4tZ2 ZF0QZLUCHU3Cigvbu4AWWVMNDEOGD/4sn9OoHxm6J04jLUHFUpFKDcjab4NRNWoHLsuLGjve Gdbr2RKO2oJ5qZj81K7os0/5vTAA4qHDP2EETAQcunTn6aPlkUnJ8aw6I1Rwyg7/XsU7gQHF IM/cUMuWWm7OUUPtJeR8loxZiZciU7SMvN1/B9ycPMFs/A6EEzyG+2zKryWry8k7G/pcPrFx O2PkDPy3YmN1RfpIX2HEmnCEFTTCsKgYORangFu/qOcXvM83N+2viXxG4mjLAMiIml1o2lKV cqmP8roqufIAj+Ohhzs= Message-ID: <41eb4fc8-3b57-478b-05b4-88bed24ed66e@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:28:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/10/2018 08:55 AM, Rashmica Gupta wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Morton > wrote: >> >> What is the end-user impact of this patch? >> > > Only architectures/setups that allow the user to remove and add memory of > different sizes or different start addresses from the kernel at runtime will > potentially encounter the resource fragmentation. > > Trying to remove memory that overlaps iomem resources the first time > gives us this warning: "Unable to release resource <%pa-%pa>". > > Attempting a second time results in a kernel oops (on ppc at least). An oops? I think that should be investigated and fixed, even if resource merging prevents it. Do you have the details? Thanks, Vlastimil