Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm/migrate: update node demotion order during on hotplug events

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Fri Apr 09 2021 - 06:16:39 EST


On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:52:51AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> I am not really into PMEM, and I ignore whether we need
> CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG in order to have such memory on the system.
> If so, the following can be partly ignored.

Ok, I refreshed by memory with [1].
>From that, it seems that in order to use PMEM as RAM we need CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
But is that always the case? Can happen that in some scenario PMEM comes ready
to use and we do not need the hotplug trick?

Anyway, I would still like to clarify the state of the HOTPLUG_CPU.
On x86_64, HOTPLUG_CPU and MEMORY_HOTPLUG are tied by SPM means, but on arm64
one can have MEMORY_HOTPLUG while not having picked HOTPLUG_CPU.

My point is that we might want to put the callback functions and the callback
registration for cpu-hotplug guarded by its own HOTPLUG_CPU instead of guarding it
in the same MEMORY_HOTPLUG block to make it more clear?

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3