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| author | Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]> | 2021-05-04 18:39:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2021-05-05 11:27:26 -0700 |
| commit | fa965fd54827a6b6967602051736da9c163b79b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b4ea2a772f199616315d326c8063b8483579731 | |
| 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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 |
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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 |