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authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>2014-08-07 03:07:36 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-07 05:01:21 +0400
commit6326440077a48d2c3b2993f3b3f2d969f09b6917 (patch)
tree3d9f495995d60bb0c8242d7cb235afc862f473fe /include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
parentaee52cae00ba0d426a827b761920a476a08eca9e (diff)
downloadlinux-6326440077a48d2c3b2993f3b3f2d969f09b6917.tar.xz
memory-hotplug: add zone_for_memory() for selecting zone for new memory
This series of patches fixes a problem when adding memory in bad manner. For example: for a x86_64 machine booted with "mem=400M" and with 2GiB memory installed, following commands cause problem: # echo 0x40000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe [ 28.613895] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x40000000-0x47ffffff] # echo 0x48000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe [ 28.693675] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x48000000-0x4fffffff] # echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state # echo 0x50000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe [ 29.084090] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x50000000-0x57ffffff] # echo 0x58000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe [ 29.151880] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x58000000-0x5fffffff] # echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state # echo online> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory8/state # echo online> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/state # echo offline> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state [ 30.558819] Offlined Pages 32768 # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 780588 18014398509432020 830552 0 0 51180 -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509380840 881732 Swap: 0 0 0 This is because the above commands probe higher memory after online a section with online_movable, which causes ZONE_HIGHMEM (or ZONE_NORMAL for systems without ZONE_HIGHMEM) overlaps ZONE_MOVABLE. After the second online_movable, the problem can be observed from zoneinfo: # cat /proc/zoneinfo ... Node 0, zone Movable pages free 65491 min 250 low 312 high 375 scanned 0 spanned 18446744073709518848 present 65536 managed 65536 ... This series of patches solve the problem by checking ZONE_MOVABLE when choosing zone for new memory. If new memory is inside or higher than ZONE_MOVABLE, makes it go there instead. After applying this series of patches, following are free and zoneinfo result (after offlining memory9): bash-4.2# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 780956 80112 700844 0 0 51180 -/+ buffers/cache: 28932 752024 Swap: 0 0 0 bash-4.2# cat /proc/zoneinfo Node 0, zone DMA pages free 3389 min 14 low 17 high 21 scanned 0 spanned 4095 present 3998 managed 3977 nr_free_pages 3389 ... start_pfn: 1 inactive_ratio: 1 Node 0, zone DMA32 pages free 73724 min 341 low 426 high 511 scanned 0 spanned 98304 present 98304 managed 92958 nr_free_pages 73724 ... start_pfn: 4096 inactive_ratio: 1 Node 0, zone Normal pages free 32630 min 120 low 150 high 180 scanned 0 spanned 32768 present 32768 managed 32768 nr_free_pages 32630 ... start_pfn: 262144 inactive_ratio: 1 Node 0, zone Movable pages free 65476 min 241 low 301 high 361 scanned 0 spanned 98304 present 65536 managed 65536 nr_free_pages 65476 ... start_pfn: 294912 inactive_ratio: 1 This patch (of 7): Introduce zone_for_memory() in arch independent code for arch_add_memory() use. Many arch_add_memory() function simply selects ZONE_HIGHMEM or ZONE_NORMAL and add new memory into it. However, with the existance of ZONE_MOVABLE, the selection method should be carefully considered: if new, higher memory is added after ZONE_MOVABLE is setup, the default zone and ZONE_MOVABLE may overlap each other. should_add_memory_movable() checks the status of ZONE_MOVABLE. If it has already contain memory, compare the address of new memory and movable memory. If new memory is higher than movable, it should be added into ZONE_MOVABLE instead of default zone. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memory_hotplug.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memory_hotplug.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 79dd9eca054f..d9524c49d767 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static inline void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {}
extern int walk_memory_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
void *arg, int (*func)(struct memory_block *, void *));
extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
+extern int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default);
extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);