[PATCH V2 0/3] powerpc/hotplug: Fix affinity assoc for LPAR migration

Michael Bringmann mwb at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Nov 17 04:50:11 AEDT 2017


The migration of LPARs across Power systems affects many attributes
including that of the associativity of memory blocks and CPUs.  The
patches in this set execute when a system is coming up fresh upon a
migration target.  They are intended to,

* Recognize changes to the associativity of memory and CPUs recorded
  in internal data structures when compared to the latest copies in
  the device tree (e.g. ibm,dynamic-memory, ibm,dynamic-memory-v2,
  cpus),
* Recognize changes to the associativity mapping (e.g. ibm,
  associativity-lookup-arrays), locate all assigned memory blocks
  corresponding to each changed row, and readd all such blocks.
* Generate calls to other code layers to reset the data structures
  related to associativity of the CPUs and memory.
* Re-register the 'changed' entities into the target system.
  Re-registration of CPUs and memory blocks mostly entails acting as
  if they have been newly hot-added into the target system.

Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Michael Bringmann (3):
  hotplug/mobility: Apply assoc lookup updates for Post Migration Topo
  postmigration/memory: Review assoc lookup array changes
  postmigration/memory: Associativity & 'ibm,dynamic-memory-v2'
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Changes in V2:
  -- Try to improve patch header documentation.
  -- Remove unnecessary spacing changes from patch



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