[PATCH V3 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Pre-validate the address range with platform

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Fri Jan 22 03:34:50 EST 2021


On 22.01.21 07:04, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> On 1/20/21 2:07 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/19/21 7:10 PM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 02:33:03PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> Minor thing, we should make up our mind if we want to call stuff
>>>> internally "memhp_" or "mhp". I prefer the latter, because it is shorter.
>>>
>>> I would rather use the latter as well. I used that in [1].
>>
>> Okay, will change all that is 'memhp' as 'mhp' instead.
>>
>>> MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE should be renamed if we agree on that.
>>>
>>> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/cover/20201217130758.11565-1-osalvador@suse.de/
>>>
> 
> While replacing 'memhp' as 'mhp' in this series, noticed there are
> some more 'memhp' scattered around the code from earlier. A mix of
> both 'memhp' and 'mhp' might not be a good idea. Hence should we
> just change these remaining 'memhp' as 'mhp' as well and possibly
> also MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE as suggested earlier, in a subsequent

As mentioned in another thread to Oscar, I already have a cleanup patch
for that one lying around, part of a bigger series. Might just send that
one out separately earlier.

> clean up patch ? Would there be a problem with memhp_default_state
> being a command line parameter ?

Yes, that one we should not change, to not break existing cmdlines
without good reason. We could change the
memhp_default_online_type/memhp_online_type_from_str/... thingies, though.

Feel free to send a patch, thanks!

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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