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authorPavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>2021-05-04 18:39:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-05-05 11:27:26 -0700
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memory-hotplug.rst: add a note about ZONE_MOVABLE and page pinning
Document the special handling of page pinning when ZONE_MOVABLE present. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210215161349.246722-11-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -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