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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 05d51d2d8beb..c6bae2d77160 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. + Memory offlining can fail when dissolving a free huge page on ZONE_MOVABLE + and the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb + page is enabled. + + This can happen when we have plenty of ZONE_MOVABLE memory, but not enough + kernel memory to allocate vmemmmap pages. We may even be able to migrate + huge page contents, but will not be able to dissolve the source huge page. + This will prevent an offline operation and is unfortunate as memory offlining + is expected to succeed on movable zones. Users that depend on memory hotplug + to succeed for movable zones should carefully consider whether the memory + savings gained from this feature are worth the risk of possibly not being + able to offline memory in certain situations. + .. note:: Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory |