On 25.03.21 17:07, Michal Hocko wrote:

On Thu 25-03-21 16:35:58, Michal Hocko wrote:
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So there is indeed a difference. One way around that would be to mark
vmemmap pages (e.g. PageReserved && magic value stored somewhere in the
struct page - resembling bootmem vmemmaps) or mark section fully backing
vmemmaps as online (ugly).

I am not yet ready to give up on this. Here is a quick stab at the
pfn_to_online_page approach. It is not great but it is not really
terrible either. I think we can do better and skip

We both seem to have a different taste, to phrase it in a nice way :) ; 
but well, you seem to have set your mind (just like I seem to have set 
mine when trying to find a nice and somewhat-clean way to handle this 
when discussing it in the past).

I expressed my opinion, shared my findings and expressed my concerns; 
the series has my RB and the discussion here is around something I 
consider in no way better than what we have right now. I'll let Oscar 
handle discussing this topic further (sorry Oscar! :) ), but I'll 
happily review what the outcome of that will be.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb