Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove and ZONE_DEVICE

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:30 PM Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This series enables memory hot remove on arm64, fixes a memblock removal
> ordering problem in generic __remove_memory(), enables sysfs memory probe
> interface on arm64. It also enables ZONE_DEVICE with struct vmem_altmap
> support.
>
> Testing:
>
> Tested hot remove on arm64 for all 4K, 16K, 64K page config options with
> all possible VA_BITS and PGTABLE_LEVELS combinations. Tested ZONE_DEVICE
> with ARM64_4K_PAGES through a dummy driver.
>
> Build tested on non arm64 platforms. I will appreciate if folks can test
> arch_remove_memory() re-ordering in __remove_memory() on other platforms.
>
> Dependency:
>
> V5 series in the thread (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/14/1096) will make
> kernel linear mapping loose pgtable_page_ctor() init. When this happens
> the proposed functions free_pte|pmd|pud_table() in [PATCH 2/6] will have
> to stop calling pgtable_page_dtor().

Hi Anshuman,

I'd be interested to integrate this with the sub-section hotplug
support [1]. Otherwise the padding implementation in libnvdimm can't
be removed unless all ZONE_DEVICE capable archs also agree on the
minimum arch_add_memory() granularity. I'd prefer not to special case
which archs support which granularity, but it unfortunately
complicates what you're trying to achieve.

I think at a minimum we, mm hotplug co-travellers, need to come to a
consensus on whether sub-section support is viable for v5.2 and / or a
pre-requisite for new arch-ZONE_DEVICE implementations.