[PATCH v6 05/10] mm/memory_hotplug: Shrink zones when offlining memory
Andrew Morton
akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Oct 15 06:16:16 AEDT 2019
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:39:13 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Fixes: d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory hotplug")
>
> @Andrew, can you convert that to
>
> Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online") # visible after d0dc12e86b319
Done.
> While adding cc'ing stable at vger.kernel.org # v4.13+ would be nice,
> I doubt it will be easily possible to backport, as we are missing
> some prereq patches (e.g., from Oscar like 2c2a5af6fed2 ("mm,
> memory_hotplug: add nid parameter to arch_remove_memory")). But, it could
> be done with some work.
>
> I think "Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v5.0+" could be done more
> easily. Maybe it's okay to not cc:stable this one. We usually
> online all memory (except s390x), however, s390x does not remove that
> memory ever. Devmem with driver reserved memory would be, however,
> worth backporting this.
I added
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> [5.0+]
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