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2023-06-20memory tier: remove unneeded !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIGRATION) checkMiaohe Lin1-1/+1
establish_demotion_targets() is defined while CONFIG_MIGRATION is enabled. There's no need to check it again. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230610034114.981861-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-20memory tier: remove unneeded disable_all_demotion_targets() when ↵Miaohe Lin1-1/+0
!CONFIG_MIGRATION There's no caller of disable_all_demotion_targets() when CONFIG_MIGRATION is disabled. Remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230606120724.208552-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-10memory tier: release the new_memtier in find_create_memory_tier()Tong Tiangen1-2/+2
In find_create_memory_tier(), if failed to register device, then we should release new_memtier from the tier list and put device instead of memtier. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230129040651.1329208-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com Fixes: 9832fb87834e ("mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfs") Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Guohanjun <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-12-01mm/demotion: fix NULL vs IS_ERR checking in memory_tier_initMiaoqian Lin1-1/+1
alloc_memory_type() returns error pointers on error instead of NULL. Use IS_ERR() to check the return value to fix this. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221110030751.1627266-1-linmq006@gmail.com Fixes: 7b88bda3761b ("mm/demotion/dax/kmem: set node's abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-09memory: move hotplug memory notifier priority to same file for easy sortingLiu Shixin1-1/+1
The priority of hotplug memory callback is defined in a different file. And there are some callers using numbers directly. Collect them together into include/linux/memory.h for easy reading. This allows us to sort their priorities more intuitively without additional comments. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220923033347.3935160-9-liushixin2@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: zefan li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-28memory tier, sysfs: rename attribute "nodes" to "nodelist"Huang Ying1-4/+4
In sysfs, we use attribute name "cpumap" or "cpus" for cpu mask and "cpulist" or "cpus_list" for cpu list. For example, in my system, $ cat /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpumap f,ffffffff $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/topology/core_cpus 0,00100004 $ cat cat /sys/devices/system/node/node0/cpulist 0-35 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/topology/core_cpus_list 2,20 It looks reasonable to use "nodemap" for node mask and "nodelist" for node list. So, rename the attribute to follow the naming convention. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221020015122.290097-1-ying.huang@intel.com Fixes: 9832fb87834e2b ("mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfs") Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: expose memory tier details via sysfsAneesh Kumar K.V1-22/+87
Add /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/ where all memory tier related details can be found. All allocated memory tiers will be listed there as /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/ The nodes which are part of a specific memory tier can be listed via /sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/nodes A directory hierarchy looks like :/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ tree memory_tier4/ memory_tier4/ ├── nodes ├── subsystem -> ../../../../bus/memory_tiering └── uevent :/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering$ cat memory_tier4/nodes 0,2 [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: drop toptier_nodes from sysfs] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220922102201.62168-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220830081736.119281-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: update node_is_toptier to work with memory tiersAneesh Kumar K.V1-0/+47
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 <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: demote pages according to allocation fallback orderJagdish Gediya1-3/+48
Currently, a higher tier node can only be demoted to selected nodes on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path. This strict demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space). This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that currently. This patch adds support to get all the allowed demotion targets for a memory tier. demote_page_list() function is now modified to utilize this allowed node mask as the fallback allocation mask. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-9-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: drop memtier from memtypeAneesh Kumar K.V1-7/+9
Now that we track node-specific memtier in pg_data_t, we can drop memtier from memtype. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-8-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: add pg_data_t member to track node memory tier detailsAneesh Kumar K.V1-5/+35
Also update different helpes to use NODE_DATA()->memtier. Since node specific memtier can change based on the reassignment of NUMA node to a different memory tiers, accessing NODE_DATA()->memtier needs to happen under an rcu read lock or memory_tier_lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-7-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: build demotion targets based on explicit memory tiersAneesh Kumar K.V1-12/+226
This patch switch the demotion target building logic to use memory tiers instead of NUMA distance. All N_MEMORY NUMA nodes will be placed in the default memory tier and additional memory tiers will be added by drivers like dax kmem. This patch builds the demotion target for a NUMA node by looking at all memory tiers below the tier to which the NUMA node belongs. The closest node in the immediately following memory tier is used as a demotion target. Since we are now only building demotion target for N_MEMORY NUMA nodes the CPU hotplug calls are removed in this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-6-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion/dax/kmem: set node's abstract distance to ↵Aneesh Kumar K.V1-23/+91
MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE By default, all nodes are assigned to the default memory tier which is the memory tier designated for nodes with DRAM Set dax kmem device node's tier to slower memory tier by assigning abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE. Low-level drivers like papr_scm or ACPI NFIT can initialize memory device type to a more accurate value based on device tree details or HMAT. If the kernel doesn't find the memory type initialized, a default slower memory type is assigned by the kmem driver. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: assign correct memory type for multiple dax devices with the same node affinity] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826100224.542312-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-5-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: add hotplug callbacks to handle new numa node onlinedAneesh Kumar K.V1-0/+68
If the new NUMA node onlined doesn't have a abstract distance assigned, the kernel adds the NUMA node to default memory tier. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: fix kernel error with memory hotplug] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220825092019.379069-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: move memory demotion related codeAneesh Kumar K.V1-0/+64
This moves memory demotion related code to mm/memory-tiers.c. No functional change in this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-3-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-09-27mm/demotion: add support for explicit memory tiersAneesh Kumar K.V1-0/+129
Patch series "mm/demotion: Memory tiers and demotion", v15. The current kernel has the basic memory tiering support: Inactive pages on a higher tier NUMA node can be migrated (demoted) to a lower tier NUMA node to make room for new allocations on the higher tier NUMA node. Frequently accessed pages on a lower tier NUMA node can be migrated (promoted) to a higher tier NUMA node to improve the performance. In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed. The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier, and builds the tier hierarchy tier-by-tier by establishing the per-node demotion targets based on the distances between nodes. This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for several important use cases: * The current tier initialization code always initializes each memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed memory-only node on a virtual machine) and that should be put into a higher tier. * The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier. But on a system with HBM (e.g. GPU memory) devices, these memory-only HBM NUMA nodes should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are better to be placed into the next lower tier. * Also because the current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier, when a CPU is hot-added (or hot-removed) and triggers a memory node from CPU-less into a CPU node (or vice versa), the memory tier hierarchy gets changed, even though no memory node is added or removed. This can make the tier hierarchy unstable and make it difficult to support tier-based memory accounting. * A higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with shortest distance on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path, not any other node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space), and has resulted in the feature request for an interface to override the system-wide, per-node demotion order from the userspace. This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that. This patch series make the creation of memory tiers explicit under the control of device driver. Memory Tier Initialization ========================== Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific performance range into a memory tier. By default, all memory nodes are assigned to the default tier with abstract distance 512. A device driver can move its memory nodes from the default tier. For example, PMEM can move its memory nodes below the default tier, whereas GPU can move its memory nodes above the default tier. The kernel initialization code makes the decision on which exact tier a memory node should be assigned to based on the requests from the device drivers as well as the memory device hardware information provided by the firmware. Hot-adding/removing CPUs doesn't affect memory tier hierarchy. This patch (of 10): In the current kernel, memory tiers are defined implicitly via a demotion path relationship between NUMA nodes, which is created during the kernel initialization and updated when a NUMA node is hot-added or hot-removed. The current implementation puts all nodes with CPU into the highest tier, and builds the tier hierarchy by establishing the per-node demotion targets based on the distances between nodes. This current memory tier kernel implementation needs to be improved for several important use cases, The current tier initialization code always initializes each memory-only NUMA node into a lower tier. But a memory-only NUMA node may have a high performance memory device (e.g. a DRAM-backed memory-only node on a virtual machine) that should be put into a higher tier. The current tier hierarchy always puts CPU nodes into the top tier. But on a system with HBM or GPU devices, the memory-only NUMA nodes mapping these devices should be in the top tier, and DRAM nodes with CPUs are better to be placed into the next lower tier. With current kernel higher tier node can only be demoted to nodes with shortest distance on the next lower tier as defined by the demotion path, not any other node from any lower tier. This strict, demotion order does not work in all use cases (e.g. some use cases may want to allow cross-socket demotion to another node in the same demotion tier as a fallback when the preferred demotion node is out of space), This demotion order is also inconsistent with the page allocation fallback order when all the nodes in a higher tier are out of space: The page allocation can fall back to any node from any lower tier, whereas the demotion order doesn't allow that. This patch series address the above by defining memory tiers explicitly. Linux kernel presents memory devices as NUMA nodes and each memory device is of a specific type. The memory type of a device is represented by its abstract distance. A memory tier corresponds to a range of abstract distance. This allows for classifying memory devices with a specific performance range into a memory tier. This patch configures the range/chunk size to be 128. The default DRAM abstract distance is 512. We can have 4 memory tiers below the default DRAM with abstract distance range 0 - 127, 127 - 255, 256- 383, 384 - 511. Faster memory devices can be placed in these faster(higher) memory tiers. Slower memory devices like persistent memory will have abstract distance higher than the default DRAM level. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Aneesh] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220818131042.113280-2-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Hesham Almatary <hesham.almatary@huawei.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Jagdish Gediya <jvgediya.oss@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>