linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove and ZONE

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 3 Apr 2019 11:08:53 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, james.morse@....com,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, cpandya@...eaurora.org,
        arunks@...eaurora.org, osalvador@...e.de,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, cai@....pw
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove and ZONE_DEVICE

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 9:30 PM Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual@....com> wrote:
>
> This series enables memory hot remove on arm64, fixes a memblock removal
> ordering problem in generic __remove_memory(), enables sysfs memory probe
> interface on arm64. It also enables ZONE_DEVICE with struct vmem_altmap
> support.
>
> Testing:
>
> Tested hot remove on arm64 for all 4K, 16K, 64K page config options with
> all possible VA_BITS and PGTABLE_LEVELS combinations. Tested ZONE_DEVICE
> with ARM64_4K_PAGES through a dummy driver.
>
> Build tested on non arm64 platforms. I will appreciate if folks can test
> arch_remove_memory() re-ordering in __remove_memory() on other platforms.
>
> Dependency:
>
> V5 series in the thread (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/14/1096) will make
> kernel linear mapping loose pgtable_page_ctor() init. When this happens
> the proposed functions free_pte|pmd|pud_table() in [PATCH 2/6] will have
> to stop calling pgtable_page_dtor().

Hi Anshuman,

I'd be interested to integrate this with the sub-section hotplug
support [1]. Otherwise the padding implementation in libnvdimm can't
be removed unless all ZONE_DEVICE capable archs also agree on the
minimum arch_add_memory() granularity. I'd prefer not to special case
which archs support which granularity, but it unfortunately
complicates what you're trying to achieve.

I think at a minimum we, mm hotplug co-travellers, need to come to a
consensus on whether sub-section support is viable for v5.2 and / or a
pre-requisite for new arch-ZONE_DEVICE implementations.