[PATCH 0/2] Fix subsection vmemmap_populate logic

Zhenhua Huang quic_zhenhuah at quicinc.com
Sun Dec 8 22:04:22 PST 2024



On 2024/12/7 14:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 17:13:39 +0800 Zhenhua Huang <quic_zhenhuah at quicinc.com> wrote:
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>> On 2024/11/28 15:26, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
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>>> On 2024/11/21 15:12, Zhenhua Huang wrote:
>>>> To perform memory hotplug operations, the memmap (aka struct page)
>>>> will be
>>>> updated. For arm64 with 4K page size, the typical granularity is 128M,
>>>> which corresponds to a 2M memmap buffer.
>>>> Commit 2045a3b8911b ("mm/sparse-vmemmap: generalise
>>>> vmemmap_populate_hugepages()")
>>>> optimizes this 2M buffer to be mapped with PMD huge pages. However,
>>>> commit ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug")
>>>> which supports 2M subsection hotplug granularity, causes other issues
>>>> (refer to the change log of patch #1). The logic is adjusted to populate
>>>> with huge pages only if the hotplug address/size is section-aligned.
>>>
>>> Could any expert please help review ?
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>> Gentle reminder for review..
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> MM developers work on the linux-mm mailing list, which was not cc'ed.
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> Please address Catalin's review comment
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Z1Mwo5OajFZQYlOg@arm.com) then resend a v2
> series with the appropriate cc's.

Thanks Andrew! Will do. I was realizing I couldn't fully rely on 
get_maintainers script :)

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