[PATCH] acpi memory hotplug, add parameter to disable memory hotplug for kexec

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:34:16PM -0500, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 12:00:29AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >> > The system then panics and the kdump/kexec kernel boots.  During this boot
> >> > ACPi is initialized and the kernel (as can be seen above)
> >>
> >> Which is a bug.  You're not supposed to initialize ACPI twice in a row.
> >
> > [CC lkml, kexec mailing list, dave young]
> >
> > It is a fresh instance of kernel booting and it is initializing its data
> > structures fresh. It is *not* re-initializing ACPI in same kernel.
> >
> >> > This patchset resolves the problem by adding a kernel parameter,
> >> > no_memory_hotplug, to disable ACPI memory hotplug.  It can be added by default
> >> > as a parameter to the kexec/kdump kernel so the kernel boots correctly.
> >>
> >> This problem is specific to kexec/kdump, so please don't add *generic* command
> >> line parameters to address this.
> >>
> >
> > There are other command line options to solve kdump problems. In general
> > one might want to disable memory hogplug on the fly even if it is compiled
> > in the kernel. So it can act as a good debugging aid.
> >
> > Secondly, it can be specified with memmap=exactmap and mem=X paramters to
> > make sure no memory is hot added in the system.
> >
> > So I can see other usages of this parameter. To me it makes sense to have
> > a separate command line option to disable memory hotplug feature on the
> > fly.
> 
> I'm ok this option. But note, even if this option is specified, SH,
> Power and S390 still
> be able to use memory hotplug because their firmware are totally
> different from ACPI.
> 
> Maybe, adding acpi prefix provides good clarification.

Makes sense. Something like "acpi_no_memhotplug" or "acpi_disable_memhotplug"
or something else.

Thanks
Vivek