On 04/22/20 at 12:05pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 22.04.20 11:57, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/22/20 at 11:24am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> On 22.04.20 11:17, Baoquan He wrote:
> >>> On 04/21/20 at 03:29pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsd
On 22.04.20 11:57, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/22/20 at 11:24am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 22.04.20 11:17, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 04/21/20 at 03:29pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we
>> don't
>> pass the efi, it won'
On 04/22/20 at 11:24am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 22.04.20 11:17, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/21/20 at 03:29pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we
> don't
> pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I rem
On 22.04.20 11:17, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/21/20 at 03:29pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we don't
pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I remember
correctly. Yeah, I remeber kvm guest can get memory ho
On 04/21/20 at 03:29pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we don't
> >> pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I remember
> >> correctly. Yeah, I remeber kvm guest can get memory hotplugged with
> >> ACPI only, this won'
>> b) "kexec -s -l" seems to work fine. For now, the kernel does not seem
>> to get placed on virtio-mem memory (pure luck due to the left-to-right
>> search). Memory added by virtio-mem is not getting added to the e820
>> map. Once the virtio-mem driver comes back up in the kexec kernel, the
>>
David Hildenbrand writes:
>>> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we don't
>>> pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I remember
>>> correctly. Yeah, I remeber kvm guest can get memory hotplugged with
>>> ACPI only, this won't happen on bare metal th
On 21.04.20 15:29, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we don't
>>> pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I remember
>>> correctly. Yeah, I remeber kvm guest can get memory hotplugged with
>>> ACPI only, this won't happen
>> ACPI SRAT is embeded into efi, need read out the rsdp pointer. If we don't
>> pass the efi, it won't get the SRAT table correctly, if I remember
>> correctly. Yeah, I remeber kvm guest can get memory hotplugged with
>> ACPI only, this won't happen on bare metal though. Need check carefully.
>>
>> kexec_walk_memblock() has the option for "kbuf->top_down". Only
>> kexec_walk_resources() seems to ignore it.
>
> Yeah, that top down searching is done in a found low mem area. Means
> firstly search an available region bottom up, then put kernel top down
> in that region. The reason is our iom
On 04/16/20 at 04:09pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >>> Sounds doable to me, and not complicated.
> >>>
> images. It would apply to
>
> - arm64 and filter out all hotadded memory (IIRC, only boot memory can
> be used).
> >>>
> >>> Do you mean hot added memory after boot can't b
>>> Sounds doable to me, and not complicated.
>>>
images. It would apply to
- arm64 and filter out all hotadded memory (IIRC, only boot memory can
be used).
>>>
>>> Do you mean hot added memory after boot can't be recognized and added
>>> into system RAM on arm64?
>>
>> See pa
On 04/16/20 at 03:31pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Not sure if I get the notifier idea clearly. If you mean
> >
> > 1) Add a common function to pick memory in unmovable zone;
>
> Not strictly required IMHO. But, minor detail.
>
> > 2) Let DLPAR, balloon register with notifier;
>
> Yeah, or v
> Not sure if I get the notifier idea clearly. If you mean
>
> 1) Add a common function to pick memory in unmovable zone;
Not strictly required IMHO. But, minor detail.
> 2) Let DLPAR, balloon register with notifier;
Yeah, or virtio-mem, or any other technology that adds/removes memory
dynamic
On 04/14/20 at 04:49pm, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > The root cause is kexec-ed kernel is targeted at hotpluggable memory
> > region. Just avoiding the movable area can fix it. In kexec_file_load(),
> > just checking or picking those unmovable region to put kernel/initrd in
> > func
On 14.04.20 16:39, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/14/20 at 11:37am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 14.04.20 11:22, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 04/14/20 at 10:00am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 14.04.20 08:40, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/13/20 at 08:15am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Baoquan He wr
On 04/14/20 at 11:37am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.04.20 11:22, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/14/20 at 10:00am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> On 14.04.20 08:40, Baoquan He wrote:
> >>> On 04/13/20 at 08:15am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Baoquan He writes:
>
> > On 04/12/20 at 02:5
On 14.04.20 11:22, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 04/14/20 at 10:00am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 14.04.20 08:40, Baoquan He wrote:
>>> On 04/13/20 at 08:15am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Baoquan He writes:
> On 04/12/20 at 02:52pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> The only benefit of
On 04/14/20 at 10:00am, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.04.20 08:40, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 04/13/20 at 08:15am, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Baoquan He writes:
> >>
> >>> On 04/12/20 at 02:52pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The only benefit of kexec_file_load is that it is simple en
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