linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3] mm: memory hot-add: memory can not be added to movable zone defaultly

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Message-ID: <55e0c306.4521370a.5c130.ffffa456@mx.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>
To:	Changsheng Liu <liuchangsheng@...pur.com>
Cc:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	<vbabka@...e.cz>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <wunan@...pur.com>,
	<yanxiaofeng@...pur.com>, <fandd@...pur.com>,
	Changsheng Liu <liuchangcheng@...pur.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] mm: memory hot-add: memory can not be added to
 movable zone defaultly


On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:54:01 -0400
Changsheng Liu <liuchangsheng@...pur.com> wrote:

> From: Changsheng Liu <liuchangcheng@...pur.com>
> 
> After the user config CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE and movable_node kernel option,
> When the memory is hot added, should_add_memory_movable() return 0
> because all zones including movable zone are empty,
> so the memory that was hot added will be added  to the normal zone
> and the normal zone will be created firstly.
> But we want the whole node to be added to movable zone defaultly.
> 
> So we change should_add_memory_movable(): if the user config
> CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE and movable_node kernel option
> it will always return 1 and all zones is empty at the same time,
> so that the movable zone will be created firstly
> and then the whole node will be added to movable zone defaultly.
> If we want the node to be added to normal zone,
> we can do it as follows:
> "echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state"
> 
> If the memory is added to movable zone defaultly,
> the user can offline it and add it to other zone again.
> But if the memory is added to normal zone defaultly,
> the user will not offline the memory used by kernel.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Changsheng Liu <liuchangcheng@...pur.com>i
> Tested-by: Dongdong Fan <fandd@...pur.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 26fbba7..b5f14fa 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1198,6 +1198,9 @@ static int should_add_memory_movable(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
>  	pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
>  	struct zone *movable_zone = pgdat->node_zones + ZONE_MOVABLE;
>  
> +	if (movable_node_is_enabled())
> +		return 1;
> +
>  	if (zone_is_empty(movable_zone))
>  		return 0;

Your patch cannot prevent from creating ZONE_MOVABLE before/in
ZONE_NORAML. Please check that start PFN of hot added memory is
after ZONE_NORAML.

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu


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