linux-kernel - [Part2 PATCH v4 03/15] page_alloc, mem-hotplug: Improve movablecore to {en|dis}able using SRAT.

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Message-Id: <1371128619-8987-4-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:03:27 +0800
From:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, hpa@...or.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, trenn@...e.de,
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Subject: [Part2 PATCH v4 03/15] page_alloc, mem-hotplug: Improve movablecore to {en|dis}able using SRAT.

The Hot-Pluggable Fired in SRAT specified which memory ranges are hotpluggable.
We will arrange hotpluggable memory as ZONE_MOVABLE for users who want to use
memory hotplug functionality. But this will cause NUMA performance decreased
because kernel cannot use ZONE_MOVABLE.

So we improve movablecore boot option to allow those who want to use memory
hotplug functionality to enable using SRAT info to arrange movable memory.

Users can specify "movablecore=acpi" in kernel commandline to enable this
functionality.

For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want to lose their NUMA
performance, just don't specify anything. The kernel will work as before.

Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |    3 +++
 mm/page_alloc.c                |   13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 3e622c6..0b21e54 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ enum {
 	ONLINE_MOVABLE,
 };
 
+/* Enable/disable SRAT in movablecore boot option */
+extern bool movablecore_enable_srat;
+
 /*
  * pgdat resizing functions
  */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 7ba7703..ee5ae49 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -209,6 +209,8 @@ static unsigned long __initdata required_kernelcore;
 static unsigned long __initdata required_movablecore;
 static unsigned long __meminitdata zone_movable_pfn[MAX_NUMNODES];
 
+bool __initdata movablecore_enable_srat;
+
 /* movable_zone is the "real" zone pages in ZONE_MOVABLE are taken from */
 int movable_zone;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(movable_zone);
@@ -5062,6 +5064,12 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
 	}
 }
 
+static void __init cmdline_movablecore_srat(char *p)
+{
+	if (p && !strcmp(p, "acpi"))
+		movablecore_enable_srat = true;
+}
+
 static int __init cmdline_parse_core(char *p, unsigned long *core)
 {
 	unsigned long long coremem;
@@ -5092,6 +5100,11 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_kernelcore(char *p)
  */
 static int __init cmdline_parse_movablecore(char *p)
 {
+	cmdline_movablecore_srat(p);
+
+	if (movablecore_enable_srat)
+		return 0;
+
 	return cmdline_parse_core(p, &required_movablecore);
 }
 
-- 
1.7.1

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