Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:56:52 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V7 0/4] mm/kvm/vfio/ppc64: Migrate compound pages out of CMA region |
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:24:32 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> ppc64 use CMA area for the allocation of guest page table (hash page table). We won't > be able to start guest if we fail to allocate hash page table. We have observed > hash table allocation failure because we failed to migrate pages out of CMA region > because they were pinned. This happen when we are using VFIO. VFIO on ppc64 pins > the entire guest RAM. If the guest RAM pages get allocated out of CMA region, we > won't be able to migrate those pages. The pages are also pinned for the lifetime of the > guest. > > Currently we support migration of non-compound pages. With THP and with the addition of > hugetlb migration we can end up allocating compound pages from CMA region. This > patch series add support for migrating compound pages.
Very little review activity is in evidence. Please identify some appropriate reviewers and ask them to take a look?
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