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[73.69.118.222]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 22sm14853307qke.123.2021.02.01.07.38.45 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:38:46 -0800 (PST) From: Pavel Tatashin To: pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, vbabka@suse.cz, mhocko@suse.com, david@redhat.com, osalvador@suse.de, dan.j.williams@intel.com, sashal@kernel.org, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com, jgg@ziepe.ca, peterz@infradead.org, mgorman@suse.de, willy@infradead.org, rientjes@google.com, jhubbard@nvidia.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, ira.weiny@intel.com, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org Subject: [PATCH v9 10/14] memory-hotplug.rst: add a note about ZONE_MOVABLE and page pinning Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:38:23 -0500 Message-Id: <20210201153827.444374-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210201153827.444374-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> References: <20210201153827.444374-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present. Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 5c4432c96c4b..c6618f99f765 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,15 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. +.. note:: + Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and + vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory + hot remove. Pinned pages cannot reside on ZONE_MOVABLE, to guarantee that + memory can still get hot removed - be aware that pinning can fail even if + there is plenty of free memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. In addition, using + ZONE_MOVABLE might make page pinning more expensive, because pages have to be + migrated off that zone first. + .. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory: How to offline memory