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| author | Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> | 2021-05-04 18:39:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-05 11:27:26 -0700 |
| commit | fa965fd54827a6b6967602051736da9c163b79b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b4ea2a772f199616315d326c8063b8483579731 /Documentation | |
| parent | d1e153fea2a8940273174fc17733c44323d35cd5 (diff) | |
memory-hotplug.rst: add a note about ZONE_MOVABLE and page pinning
Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 5307f90738aa..05d51d2d8beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,15 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. +.. note:: + Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and + vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory + hot remove. Pinned pages cannot reside on ZONE_MOVABLE, to guarantee that + memory can still get hot removed - be aware that pinning can fail even if + there is plenty of free memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. In addition, using + ZONE_MOVABLE might make page pinning more expensive, because pages have to be + migrated off that zone first. + .. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory: How to offline memory |