[PATCH 0/2] mm: vmemmap: add vmemmap_verify check for hot-add node/memory case
Yinghai Lu
yinghai at kernel.org
Thu Apr 11 11:10:28 EDT 2013
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Tang Chen <tangchen at cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> 3. If we add flag to memblock, we can mark different memory. And I remember
> you mentioned before that we can use memblock to reserve local node data
> for node-life-cycle data, like vmemmap, pagetable.
>
> So are you doing the similar work now ?
No, i did not start it yet.
>
> If not, I think I can merge it into mine, and push a new patch-set with
> hot-add, hot-remove code modified to support putting vmemmap, pagetable,
> pgdat, page_cgroup, ..., on local node.
Need to have it separated with moving_zone.
1. rework memblock to keep alive all the way for hotplug usage.
2. put pagetable and vmemap on the local node range with help of memblock.
Thanks
Yinghai
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