On 06/12/2012 08:55 PM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:Currently, I only need to ignore the memory. If we need to ignore a
node,
"numa_node=" or similar parameter is a better choice.
Doesn't the end user have to know the memory map of the system to use
"max_addr="? How do you know what value to supply? Do you have to
attempt a boot once to discover the highest address on node 0? What
if node 0 and node 1 memory are interleaved, so there's some node 1
memory below the highest node 0 address?
Current our plan is to avoid asking end-user to fix their boot option by
hand even if memory size per node is changed. We'll ship a hardware, which has
_fixed_ physical address range per each node regardless of equipped
memory size.
I.E. you'll be configuring this yourself when you ship hardware.
You're adding an option because you consider it less confusing for your
end users who are digging into kernel parameters, but you will set this
new option for your users because they haven't got the information to
set it themselves?
Problem happens => reboot (disable some DIMM) => remove memmap= option
for avoiding
trouble => check memory layout again =>fix mem_map= => reboot again.
This reboot takes much time because the system which have
Dynamic-partitioning tends to
be big....so, we'd like to have some _relaxed_ way to specify the region
of memory.
Problem happens => reboot (disable some DIMM) => no changes required
(because we have enough memory hole between Node0 and Node1.)
I'm guessing the above means "or you'll be providing some tool that does
it when they install/remove memory in the hardware"...
BTW, how do you think about mem= boot option which works as max_addr=,
now ?
This caused troubles some times on our support-desk, saying
Q. I specified mem=8G boot option but it seems the system has only 7GB....
A. it's because of PCI configuration area on 3G-4G address range...
So you're saying there are already two ways to do this, but you want to
add a third to be less confusing for end users who are modifying the
linux kernel boot parameters by hand using information only you can
supply to them?
I'm confused...