linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/1] powerpc/kernel: Enables memory hot-remove after reboot on pseries guests

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Date:   Thu,  2 Apr 2020 16:51:57 -0300
From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] powerpc/kernel: Enables memory hot-remove after reboot on pseries guests

While providing guests, it's desirable to resize it's memory on demand.

By now, it's possible to do so by creating a guest with a small base
memory, hot-plugging all the rest, and using 'movable_node' kernel
command-line parameter, which puts all hot-plugged memory in
ZONE_MOVABLE, allowing it to be removed whenever needed.

But there is an issue regarding guest reboot:
If memory is hot-plugged, and then the guest is rebooted, all hot-plugged
memory goes to ZONE_NORMAL, which offers no guaranteed hot-removal.
It usually prevents this memory to be hot-removed from the guest.

It's possible to use device-tree information to fix that behavior, as
it stores flags for LMB ranges on ibm,dynamic-memory-vN.
It involves marking each memblock with the correct flags as hotpluggable
memory, which mm/memblock.c puts in ZONE_MOVABLE during boot if
'movable_node' is passed.

For carrying such information, the new flag DRCONF_MEM_HOTREMOVABLE was
proposed and accepted into Power Architecture documentation.
This flag should be:
- true (b=1) if the hypervisor may want to hot-remove it later, and
- false (b=0) if it does not care.

During boot, guest kernel reads the device-tree, early_init_drmem_lmb()
is called for every added LMBs. Here, checking for this new flag and
marking memblocks as hotplugable memory is enough to get the desirable
behavior.

This should cause no change if 'movable_node' parameter is not passed
in kernel command-line.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@...ux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.ibm.com>

---

Changes since v2:
- New flag name changed from DRCONF_MEM_HOTPLUGGED to
	DRCONF_MEM_HOTREMOVABLE

Changes since v1:
- Adds new flag, so PowerVM is compatible with the change.
- Fixes mistakes in code
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c       | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h
index 3d76e1c388c2..ad99e27e5b65 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ struct of_drconf_cell_v2 {
 #define DRCONF_MEM_ASSIGNED	0x00000008
 #define DRCONF_MEM_AI_INVALID	0x00000040
 #define DRCONF_MEM_RESERVED	0x00000080
+#define DRCONF_MEM_HOTREMOVABLE	0x00000100

 static inline u32 drmem_lmb_size(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 6620f37abe73..abc9b04d03ce 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -515,9 +515,14 @@ static void __init early_init_drmem_lmb(struct drmem_lmb *lmb,
 				size = 0x80000000ul - base;
 		}

+		if (!validate_mem_limit(base, &size))
+			continue;
+
 		DBG("Adding: %llx -> %llx\n", base, size);
-		if (validate_mem_limit(base, &size))
-			memblock_add(base, size);
+		memblock_add(base, size);
+
+		if (lmb->flags & DRCONF_MEM_HOTREMOVABLE)
+			memblock_mark_hotplug(base, size);
 	} while (--rngs);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES */
-- 
2.25.1