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Currently, we do not support device block sizes that exceed the Linux memory block size. For example, having a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., gigantic pages in the hypervisor) won't work with 128 MiB Linux memory blocks. Let's implement Big Block Mode (BBM), whereby we add/remove at least one Linux memory block at a time. With a 1 GiB device block size, a Big Block (BB) will cover 8 Linux memory blocks. We'll keep registering the online_page_callback machinery, it will be used for safe memory hotunplug in BBM next. Note: BBM is properly prepared for variable-sized Linux memory blocks that we might see in the future. So we won't care how many Linux memory blocks a big block actually spans, and how the memory notifier is called. Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201112133815.13332-26-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.