On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 04:53:33PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:

OK, so while I was playing with this setup some more I probably got why
this is done this way. All new memblocks are added to the zone Normal
where they are accounted as spanned but not present.

It's not always zone Normal. See zone_for_memory(). This leads to a 
workaround for having to do online_movable in descending block order. 
Instead of this:

1. probe block 34, probe block 33, probe block 32, ...
2. online_movable 34, online_movable 33, online_movable 32, ...

you can online_movable the first block before adding the rest:

1. probe block 32, online_movable 32
2. probe block 33, probe block 34, ...
	- zone_for_memory() will cause these to start Movable
3. online 33, online 34, ...
	- they're already in Movable, so online_movable is equivalentr

I agree with your general sentiment that this stuff is very 
nonintuitive.

-- 
Reza Arbab

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