kernel/linux.git/include/linux/node.h, branch v6.6.132

base/node / ACPI: Enumerate node access class for 'struct access_coordinate'

2025-11-24T09:30:04+00:00

[ Upstream commit 11270e526276ffad4c4237acb393da82a3287487 ] Both generic node and HMAT handling code have been using magic numbers to indicate access classes for 'struct access_coordinate'. Introduce enums to enumerate the access0 and access1 classes shared by the two subsystems. Update the function parameters and callers as appropriate to utilize the new enum. Access0 is named to ACCESS_COORDINATE_LOCAL in order to indicate that the access class is for 'struct access_coordinate' between a target node and the nearest initiator node. Access1 is named to ACCESS_COORDINATE_CPU in order to indicate that the access class is for 'struct access_coordinate' between a target node and the nearest CPU node. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240308220055.2172956-3-dave.jiang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Stable-dep-of: 214291cbaace ("acpi/hmat: Fix lockdep warning for hmem_register_resource()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

base/node / acpi: Change 'node_hmem_attrs' to 'access_coordinates'

2025-11-24T09:30:03+00:00

[ Upstream commit 6a954e94d038f41d79c4e04348c95774d1c9337d ] Dan Williams suggested changing the struct 'node_hmem_attrs' to 'access_coordinates' [1]. The struct is a container of r/w-latency and r/w-bandwidth numbers. Moving forward, this container will also be used by CXL to store the performance characteristics of each link hop in the PCIE/CXL topology. So, where node_hmem_attrs is just the access parameters of a memory-node, access_coordinates applies more broadly to hardware topology characteristics. The observation is that seemed like an exercise in having the application identify "where" it falls on a spectrum of bandwidth and latency needs. For the tuple of read/write-latency and read/write-bandwidth, "coordinates" is not a perfect fit. Sometimes it is just conveying values in isolation and not a "location" relative to other performance points, but in the end this data is used to identify the performance operation point of a given memory-node. [2] Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/64471313421f7_1b66294d5@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/645e6215ee0de_1e6f2945e@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch/ Suggested-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/170319615734.2212653.15319394025985499185.stgit@djiang5-mobl3 Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Stable-dep-of: 214291cbaace ("acpi/hmat: Fix lockdep warning for hmem_register_resource()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: hugetlb: simplify per-node sysfs creation and removal

2022-10-03T21:03:15+00:00

Patch series "simplify handling of per-node sysfs creation and removal", v4. This patch (of 2): The following commit offload per-node sysfs creation and removal to a kworker and did not say why it is needed. And it also said "I don't know that this is absolutely required". It seems like the author was not sure as well. Since it only complicates the code, this patch will revert the changes to simplify the code. 39da08cb074c ("hugetlb: offload per node attribute registrations") We could use memory hotplug notifier to do per-node sysfs creation and removal instead of inserting those operations to node registration and unregistration. Then, it can reduce the code coupling between node.c and hugetlb.c. Also, it can simplify the code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914072603.60293-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914072603.60293-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Acked-by: Mike Kravetz Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/demotion: update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers

2022-09-27T02:46:12+00:00

With memory tier support we can have memory only NUMA nodes in the top tier from which we want to avoid promotion tracking NUMA faults. Update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiers. All NUMA nodes are by default top tier nodes. With lower(slower) memory tiers added we consider all memory tiers above a memory tier having CPU NUMA nodes as a top memory tier [sj@kernel.org: include missed header file, memory-tiers.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820190720.248704-1-sj@kernel.org [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mm/memory.c needs linux/memory-tiers.h] [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: make toptier_distance inclusive upper bound of toptiers] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081457.118960-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-10-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" Acked-by: Wei Xu Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Bharata B Rao Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Hesham Almatary Cc: Jagdish Gediya Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Yang Shi Cc: SeongJae Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

drivers/base/node: rename link_mem_sections() to register_memory_block_under_node()

2022-03-22T22:57:10+00:00

Patch series "drivers/base/memory: determine and store zone for single-zone memory blocks", v2. I remember talking to Michal in the past about removing test_pages_in_a_zone(), which we use for: * verifying that a memory block we intend to offline is really only managed by a single zone. We don't support offlining of memory blocks that are managed by multiple zones (e.g., multiple nodes, DMA and DMA32) * exposing that zone to user space via /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/valid_zones Now that I identified some more cases where test_pages_in_a_zone() might go wrong, and we received an UBSAN report (see patch #3), let's get rid of this PFN walker. So instead of detecting the zone at runtime with test_pages_in_a_zone() by scanning the memmap, let's determine and remember for each memory block if it's managed by a single zone. The stored zone can then be used for the above two cases, avoiding a manual lookup using test_pages_in_a_zone(). This avoids eventually stumbling over uninitialized memmaps in corner cases, especially when ZONE_DEVICE ranges partly fall into memory block (that are responsible for managing System RAM). Handling memory onlining is easy, because we online to exactly one zone. Handling boot memory is more tricky, because we want to avoid scanning all zones of all nodes to detect possible zones that overlap with the physical memory region of interest. Fortunately, we already have code that determines the applicable nodes for a memory block, to create sysfs links -- we'll hook into that. Patch #1 is a simple cleanup I had laying around for a longer time. Patch #2 contains the main logic to remove test_pages_in_a_zone() and further details. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220128144540.153902-1-david@redhat.com [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203105212.30385-1-david@redhat.com This patch (of 2): Let's adjust the stale terminology, making it match unregister_memory_block_under_nodes() and do_register_memory_block_under_node(). We're dealing with memory block devices, which span 1..X memory sections. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220210184359.235565-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220210184359.235565-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Rafael Parra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/base/node: consolidate node device subsystem initialization in node_dev_init()

2022-03-22T22:57:10+00:00

... and call node_dev_init() after memory_dev_init() from driver_init(), so before any of the existing arch/subsys calls. All online nodes should be known at that point: early during boot, arch code determines node and zone ranges and sets the relevant nodes online; usually this happens in setup_arch(). This is in line with memory_dev_init(), which initializes the memory device subsystem and creates all memory block devices. Similar to memory_dev_init(), panic() if anything goes wrong, we don't want to continue with such basic initialization errors. The important part is that node_dev_init() gets called after memory_dev_init() and after cpu_dev_init(), but before any of the relevant archs call register_cpu() to register the new cpu device under the node device. The latter should be the case for the current users of topology_init(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220203105212.30385-1-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Tested-by: Anatoly Pugachev (sparc64) Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Rich Felker Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

NUMA Balancing: add page promotion counter

2022-03-22T22:57:09+00:00

Patch series "NUMA balancing: optimize memory placement for memory tiering system", v13 With the advent of various new memory types, some machines will have multiple types of memory, e.g. DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory). The memory subsystem of these machines can be called memory tiering system, because the performance of the different types of memory are different. After commit c221c0b0308f ("device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM"), the PMEM could be used as the cost-effective volatile memory in separate NUMA nodes. In a typical memory tiering system, there are CPUs, DRAM and PMEM in each physical NUMA node. The CPUs and the DRAM will be put in one logical node, while the PMEM will be put in another (faked) logical node. To optimize the system overall performance, the hot pages should be placed in DRAM node. To do that, we need to identify the hot pages in the PMEM node and migrate them to DRAM node via NUMA migration. In the original NUMA balancing, there are already a set of existing mechanisms to identify the pages recently accessed by the CPUs in a node and migrate the pages to the node. So we can reuse these mechanisms to build the mechanisms to optimize the page placement in the memory tiering system. This is implemented in this patchset. At the other hand, the cold pages should be placed in PMEM node. So, we also need to identify the cold pages in the DRAM node and migrate them to PMEM node. In commit 26aa2d199d6f ("mm/migrate: demote pages during reclaim"), a mechanism to demote the cold DRAM pages to PMEM node under memory pressure is implemented. Based on that, the cold DRAM pages can be demoted to PMEM node proactively to free some memory space on DRAM node to accommodate the promoted hot PMEM pages. This is implemented in this patchset too. We have tested the solution with the pmbench memory accessing benchmark with the 80:20 read/write ratio and the Gauss access address distribution on a 2 socket Intel server with Optane DC Persistent Memory Model. The test results shows that the pmbench score can improve up to 95.9%. This patch (of 3): In a system with multiple memory types, e.g. DRAM and PMEM, the CPU and DRAM in one socket will be put in one NUMA node as before, while the PMEM will be put in another NUMA node as described in the description of the commit c221c0b0308f ("device-dax: "Hotplug" persistent memory for use like normal RAM"). So, the NUMA balancing mechanism will identify all PMEM accesses as remote access and try to promote the PMEM pages to DRAM. To distinguish the number of the inter-type promoted pages from that of the inter-socket migrated pages. A new vmstat count is added. The counter is per-node (count in the target node). So this can be used to identify promotion imbalance among the NUMA nodes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220301085329.3210428-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-1-ying.huang@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220221084529.1052339-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" Reviewed-by: Yang Shi Tested-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: zhongjiang-ali Cc: Feng Tang Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory_hotplug: remove CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE

2021-11-06T20:30:42+00:00

CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG depends on CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, so there is no need for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE anymore; adjust all instances to use CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG and remove CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929143600.49379-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Shuah Khan [kselftest] Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't panic when links can't be created in sysfs

2020-10-16T18:11:18+00:00

At boot time, or when doing memory hot-add operations, if the links in sysfs can't be created, the system is still able to run, so just report the error in the kernel log rather than BUG_ON and potentially make system unusable because the callpath can be called with locks held. Since the number of memory blocks managed could be high, the messages are rate limited. As a consequence, link_mem_sections() has no status to report anymore. Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Nathan Lynch Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" Cc: Scott Cheloha Cc: Tony Luck Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915094143.79181-4-ldufour@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: don't rely on system state to detect hot-plug operations

2020-09-26T17:33:57+00:00

In register_mem_sect_under_node() the system_state's value is checked to detect whether the call is made during boot time or during an hot-plug operation. Unfortunately, that check against SYSTEM_BOOTING is wrong because regular memory is registered at SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state. In addition, memory hot-plug operation can be triggered at this system state by the ACPI [1]. So checking against the system state is not enough. The consequence is that on system with interleaved node's ranges like this: Early memory node ranges node 1: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000011fffffff] node 2: [mem 0x0000000120000000-0x000000014fffffff] node 1: [mem 0x0000000150000000-0x00000001ffffffff] node 0: [mem 0x0000000200000000-0x000000048fffffff] node 2: [mem 0x0000000490000000-0x00000007ffffffff] This can be seen on PowerPC LPAR after multiple memory hot-plug and hot-unplug operations are done. At the next reboot the node's memory ranges can be interleaved and since the call to link_mem_sections() is made in topology_init() while the system is in the SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state, the node's id is not checked, and the sections registered to multiple nodes: $ ls -l /sys/devices/system/memory/memory21/node* total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 24 05:27 node1 -> ../../node/node1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 24 05:27 node2 -> ../../node/node2 In that case, the system is able to boot but if later one of theses memory blocks is hot-unplugged and then hot-plugged, the sysfs inconsistency is detected and this is triggering a BUG_ON(): kernel BUG at /Users/laurent/src/linux-ppc/mm/memory_hotplug.c:1084! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp pseries_rng rng_core vmx_crypto gf128mul binfmt_misc ip_tables x_tables xfs libcrc32c crc32c_vpmsum autofs4 CPU: 8 PID: 10256 Comm: drmgr Not tainted 5.9.0-rc1+ #25 Call Trace: add_memory_resource+0x23c/0x340 (unreliable) __add_memory+0x5c/0xf0 dlpar_add_lmb+0x1b4/0x500 dlpar_memory+0x1f8/0xb80 handle_dlpar_errorlog+0xc0/0x190 dlpar_store+0x198/0x4a0 kobj_attr_store+0x30/0x50 sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x90 kernfs_fop_write+0x1b0/0x290 vfs_write+0xe8/0x290 ksys_write+0xdc/0x130 system_call_exception+0x160/0x270 system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c This patch addresses the root cause by not relying on the system_state value to detect whether the call is due to a hot-plug operation. An extra parameter is added to link_mem_sections() detailing whether the operation is due to a hot-plug operation. [1] According to Oscar Salvador, using this qemu command line, ACPI memory hotplug operations are raised at SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state: $QEMU -enable-kvm -machine pc -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 -cpu host -monitor pty \ -m size=$MEM,slots=255,maxmem=4294967296k \ -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0-3,mem=512 -numa node,nodeid=1,mem=512 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm0,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=0,memdev=memdimm0,id=dimm0,slot=0 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm1,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=0,memdev=memdimm1,id=dimm1,slot=1 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm2,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=0,memdev=memdimm2,id=dimm2,slot=2 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm3,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=0,memdev=memdimm3,id=dimm3,slot=3 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm4,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=1,memdev=memdimm4,id=dimm4,slot=4 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm5,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=1,memdev=memdimm5,id=dimm5,slot=5 \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=memdimm6,size=134217728 -device pc-dimm,node=1,memdev=memdimm6,id=dimm6,slot=6 \ Fixes: 4fbce633910e ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: make register_mem_sect_under_node() a callback of walk_memory_range()") Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Nathan Lynch Cc: Scott Cheloha Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915094143.79181-3-ldufour@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds