Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE

2020-04-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:34:26 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > Andrew, could you please ack merging this through the vhost tree > together with the rest of the patches? Acked-by: Andrew Morton ___ Virtualization mailing list

Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE

2020-04-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:14:17PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: > virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts > were unplugged (allocated via alloc_contig_range()), especially, to later > offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks. The important part > is

[PATCH v2 05/10] mm: Allow to offline unmovable PageOffline() pages via MEM_GOING_OFFLINE

2020-03-11 Thread David Hildenbrand
virtio-mem wants to allow to offline memory blocks of which some parts were unplugged (allocated via alloc_contig_range()), especially, to later offline and remove completely unplugged memory blocks. The important part is that PageOffline() has to remain set until the section is offline, so these