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Message-ID: <20170614061259.GB14009@WeideMBP.lan>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:12:59 +0800
From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
To: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>,
qiuxishi@...wei.com, Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@....com>,
slaoub@...il.com, Joonsoo Kim <js1304@...il.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@...cle.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] mm, memory_hotplug: get rid of
is_zone_device_section
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 05:56:02PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
>> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
>>
>> device memory hotplug hooks into regular memory hotplug only half way.
>> It needs memory sections to track struct pages but there is no
>> need/desire to associate those sections with memory blocks and export
>> them to the userspace via sysfs because they cannot be onlined anyway.
>>
>> This is currently expressed by for_device argument to arch_add_memory
>> which then makes sure to associate the given memory range with
>> ZONE_DEVICE. register_new_memory then relies on is_zone_device_section
>> to distinguish special memory hotplug from the regular one. While this
>> works now, later patches in this series want to move __add_zone outside
>> of arch_add_memory path so we have to come up with something else.
>>
>> Add want_memblock down the __add_pages path and use it to control
>> whether the section->memblock association should be done. arch_add_memory
>> then just trivially want memblock for everything but for_device hotplug.
>>
>> remove_memory_section doesn't need is_zone_device_section either. We can
>> simply skip all the memblock specific cleanup if there is no memblock
>> for the given section.
>>
>> This shouldn't introduce any functional change.
>>
>
>Hmm... one question about the memory_block behavior.
>
>In case one memory_block contains more than one memory section.
>If one section is "device zone", the whole memory_block is not visible
>in sysfs. Or until the whole memory_block is full, the sysfs is visible.
>
>This is the known behavior right?
>
>And in this case, the memory_block could be found. Would this introduce
>some problem when remove_memory_section()?
>
Hi, Michal
Not sure you missed this one or you think this is fine.
Hmm... this will not happen since we must offline a whole memory_block?
So the memory_hotplug/unplug unit is memory_block instead of mem_section?
>
>> Changes since v1
>> - return 0 if want_memblock == 0 from __add_section as per Jerome Glisse
>>
>> Changes since v2
>> - fix remove_memory_section unlock on find_memory_block failure
>> as per Jerome - spotted by Evgeny Baskakov
>>
>> Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
>> ---
>> arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>> arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 +-
>> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>> arch/sh/mm/init.c | 2 +-
>> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 +-
>> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/base/memory.c | 23 +++++++++--------------
>> include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 2 +-
>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 9 ++++++---
>> 9 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> index 8f3efa682ee8..39e2aeb4669d 100644
>> --- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
>> @@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>>
>> zone = pgdat->node_zones +
>> zone_for_memory(nid, start, size, ZONE_NORMAL, for_device);
>> - ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>>
>> if (ret)
>> printk("%s: Problem encountered in __add_pages() as ret=%d\n",
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> index 9ee536ec0739..e6b2e6618b6c 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
>> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>> zone = pgdata->node_zones +
>> zone_for_memory(nid, start, size, 0, for_device);
>>
>> - return __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + return __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>> }
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/init.c b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> index ee6a1d3d4983..893cf88cf02d 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
>> @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>> continue;
>> nr_pages = (start_pfn + size_pages > zone_end_pfn) ?
>> zone_end_pfn - start_pfn : size_pages;
>> - rc = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + rc = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>> if (rc)
>> break;
>> start_pfn += nr_pages;
>> diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/init.c b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> index 75491862d900..a9d57f75ae8c 100644
>> --- a/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> +++ b/arch/sh/mm/init.c
>> @@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>> ret = __add_pages(nid, pgdat->node_zones +
>> zone_for_memory(nid, start, size, ZONE_NORMAL,
>> for_device),
>> - start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>> if (unlikely(ret))
>> printk("%s: Failed, __add_pages() == %d\n", __func__, ret);
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> index 99fb83819a5f..94594b889144 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>> unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>> unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>
>> - return __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + return __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>> }
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> index 41270b96403d..2e004364a373 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
>> @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
>>
>> init_memory_mapping(start, start + size);
>>
>> - ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
>> + ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, !for_device);
>> WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
>>
>> /* update max_pfn, max_low_pfn and high_memory */
>> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
>> index 90225ffee501..f8fd562c3f18 100644
>> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
>> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
>> @@ -685,14 +685,6 @@ static int add_memory_block(int base_section_nr)
>> return 0;
>> }
>>
>> -static bool is_zone_device_section(struct mem_section *ms)
>> -{
>> - struct page *page;
>> -
>> - page = sparse_decode_mem_map(ms->section_mem_map, __section_nr(ms));
>> - return is_zone_device_page(page);
>> -}
>> -
>> /*
>> * need an interface for the VM to add new memory regions,
>> * but without onlining it.
>> @@ -702,9 +694,6 @@ int register_new_memory(int nid, struct mem_section *section)
>> int ret = 0;
>> struct memory_block *mem;
>>
>> - if (is_zone_device_section(section))
>> - return 0;
>> -
>> mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex);
>>
>> mem = find_memory_block(section);
>> @@ -741,11 +730,16 @@ static int remove_memory_section(unsigned long node_id,
>> {
>> struct memory_block *mem;
>>
>> - if (is_zone_device_section(section))
>> - return 0;
>> -
>> mutex_lock(&mem_sysfs_mutex);
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Some users of the memory hotplug do not want/need memblock to
>> + * track all sections. Skip over those.
>> + */
>> mem = find_memory_block(section);
>> + if (!mem)
>> + goto out_unlock;
>> +
>> unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(mem, __section_nr(section));
>>
>> mem->section_count--;
>> @@ -754,6 +748,7 @@ static int remove_memory_section(unsigned long node_id,
>> else
>> put_device(&mem->dev);
>>
>> +out_unlock:
>> mutex_unlock(&mem_sysfs_mutex);
>> return 0;
>> }
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>> index 134a2f69c21a..3c8cf86201c3 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
>> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ extern int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>>
>> /* reasonably generic interface to expand the physical pages in a zone */
>> extern int __add_pages(int nid, struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
>> - unsigned long nr_pages);
>> + unsigned long nr_pages, bool want_memblock);
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
>> extern int memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(u64 start);
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index 6290d34b6331..a95120c56a9a 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ static int __meminit __add_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn)
>> }
>>
>> static int __meminit __add_section(int nid, struct zone *zone,
>> - unsigned long phys_start_pfn)
>> + unsigned long phys_start_pfn, bool want_memblock)
>> {
>> int ret;
>>
>> @@ -511,6 +511,9 @@ static int __meminit __add_section(int nid, struct zone *zone,
>> if (ret < 0)
>> return ret;
>>
>> + if (!want_memblock)
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> return register_new_memory(nid, __pfn_to_section(phys_start_pfn));
>> }
>>
>> @@ -521,7 +524,7 @@ static int __meminit __add_section(int nid, struct zone *zone,
>> * add the new pages.
>> */
>> int __ref __add_pages(int nid, struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
>> - unsigned long nr_pages)
>> + unsigned long nr_pages, bool want_memblock)
>> {
>> unsigned long i;
>> int err = 0;
>> @@ -549,7 +552,7 @@ int __ref __add_pages(int nid, struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
>> }
>>
>> for (i = start_sec; i <= end_sec; i++) {
>> - err = __add_section(nid, zone, section_nr_to_pfn(i));
>> + err = __add_section(nid, zone, section_nr_to_pfn(i), want_memblock);
>>
>> /*
>> * EEXIST is finally dealt with by ioresource collision
>> --
>> 2.11.0
>>
--
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