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Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks)

From Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks)
Date 2017-03-14 00:20 +0100
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> and ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT is enabeld on 64b. So I guess whatever was
> the reason to add this code back in 2006 is not true anymore. So I am
> really wondering. Do we absolutely need to assign pages which are not
> onlined yet to the ZONE_NORMAL unconditionally? Why cannot we put them
> out of any zone and wait for memory online operation to put them where
> requested?

I don't remember any specific reason. May have just been simplification.
Should be fine to use any zone.

-Andi

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Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-02 15:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 16:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-02 18:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-03 10:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-03 18:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-06 16:10 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 13:50 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-09 14:00 +0100
                WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re: [RFC  PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-10 15:00 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-10 17:00 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-10 20:10 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 10:30 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-13 16:00 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2017-03-14 20:40 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 09:00 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 16:20 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-14 00:20 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 18:40 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 10:30 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> - 2017-03-14 17:10 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-14 17:30 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 11:40 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 11:50 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 15:00 +0100
                Re: WTH is going on with memory hotplug sysf interface (was: Re:  [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 15:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 12:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 13:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 14:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 14:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 14:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-13 15:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2017-03-13 16:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> - 2017-03-14 14:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 09:00 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, hotplug: get rid of auto_online_blocks Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> - 2017-03-10 23:10 +0100

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