On Wed 21-09-16 11:27:48, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/21/2016 11:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > I would even question the per page block offlining itself. Why would
> > anybody want to offline few blocks rather than the whole node? What is
> > the usecase here?
>
> The original reason was so that y
On 09/21/2016 11:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> I would even question the per page block offlining itself. Why would
> anybody want to offline few blocks rather than the whole node? What is
> the usecase here?
The original reason was so that you could remove a DIMM or a riser card
full of DIMMs, whi
On Tue 20-09-16 10:37:04, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 08:53 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> > dissolve_free_huge_pages() will either run into the VM_BUG_ON() or a
> > list corruption and addressing exception when trying to set a memory
> > block offline that is part (but not the first part) of
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:45:23 -0700
Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 10:37 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> >
> > Their approach (I believe) would be to fail the offline operation in
> > this case. However, I could argue that failing the operation, or
> > dissolving the unused huge page containing th
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:37:04 -0700
Mike Kravetz wrote:
>
> Cc'ed Rui Teng and Dave Hansen as they were discussing the issue in
> this thread:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/13/146
Ah, thanks, I didn't see that.
>
> Their approach (I believe) would be to fail the offline operation in
> this ca
On 09/20/2016 07:45 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 09/20/2016 10:37 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
Their approach (I believe) would be to fail the offline operation in
this case. However, I could argue that failing the operation, or
dissolving the unused huge page containing the area to be offlined is
the
On 09/20/2016 10:37 AM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>
> Their approach (I believe) would be to fail the offline operation in
> this case. However, I could argue that failing the operation, or
> dissolving the unused huge page containing the area to be offlined is
> the right thing to do.
I think the rig
On 09/20/2016 08:53 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> dissolve_free_huge_pages() will either run into the VM_BUG_ON() or a
> list corruption and addressing exception when trying to set a memory
> block offline that is part (but not the first part) of a gigantic
> hugetlb page with a size > memory block
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