[PATCH 1/2] mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE

[Zi Yan]

On 19 Mar 2026, at 14:15, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

> On 3/19/26 19:12, Zi Yan wrote:
>> On 19 Mar 2026, at 14:08, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/19/26 16:24, Gregory Price wrote:
>>>>
>>>> HOTREMOVE has long been a thorn in my side, I appreciate you cleaning
>>>> this up.
>>>
>>> On a long cardrive today I was wondering: do we still need a separate
>>> MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>>
>> You mean merge HOTREMOVE into HOTPLUG?
>
> Yes, only have a single config.
>
>> I wondered the same. Is there
>> a reason to only have HOTPLUG without HOTREMOVE?
> In the past some architectures (e.g., s390x) did not support HOTREMOVE.
> Then it made sense. I'm not sure if someone would want to build a kernel
> with HOTPLUG but not have the bit of overhead for unplug+migration.
>
> So I would guess nothing major speaks against it.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi