>> My original patch for this just skipped the GHES->offline process >> for huge pages. But I wasn't aware of the sysctl control. That provides >> a better solution. > > Tony, does that mean you're OK with using the existing sysctl interface? If > so, I'll just send a separate patch to update the sysfs-memory-page-offline > documentation and drop the rest.
Kyle, It depends on which camp the external customer that reported this falls into: 1) "I'm OK disabling all soft offline requests". or the: 2) "I'd like 4K pages to still go offline if the BIOS asks, just not any huge pages". Shawn: Can you please find out? -Tony