Re: [PATCH v8 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Tue Jun 04 2019 - 03:45:01 EST


On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:39:26PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Changes since v7 [1]:
>
> - Make subsection helpers pfn based rather than physical-address based
> (Oscar and Pavel)
>
> - Make subsection bitmap definition scalable for different section and
> sub-section sizes across architectures. As a result:
>
> unsigned long map_active
>
> ...is converted to:
>
> DECLARE_BITMAP(subsection_map, SUBSECTIONS_PER_SECTION)
>
> ...and the helpers are renamed with a 'subsection' prefix. (Pavel)
>
> - New in this version is a touch of arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
> in "[PATCH v8 01/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce struct mem_section_usage"
> to define ARCH_SUBSECTION_SHIFT.
>
> - Drop "mm/sparsemem: Introduce common definitions for the size and mask
> of a section" in favor of Robin's "mm/memremap: Rename and consolidate
> SECTION_SIZE" (Pavel)
>
> - Collect some more Reviewed-by tags. Patches that still lack review
> tags: 1, 3, 9 - 12

Hi Dan,

are you planning to send V10 anytime soon?

After you addressed comments from Patch#9, the general implementation looks
fine to me and nothing sticked out from the other patches.
But I would rather wait to see v10 with the comments addressed before stamping
my Reviewed-by.

I am planning to fire my vmemmap patchset again [1], and I would like to re-base
it on top of this work, otherwise we will face many unnecessary collisions.

Thanks

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10875025/

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3