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authorLeonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>2020-04-02 22:51:57 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-06-02 13:59:07 +0300
commitb6eca183e23e7a6625a0d2cdb806b7cd1abcd2d2 (patch)
tree9e199511a1fe946533374fa53e3a4a3d32baa41f /arch/powerpc
parent0e7e92efe11bc5993def689e10f7bcb36f127651 (diff)
downloadlinux-b6eca183e23e7a6625a0d2cdb806b7cd1abcd2d2.tar.xz
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@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402195156.626430-1-leonardo@linux.ibm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c9
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/drmem.h
index 28c3d936fdf3..414d209f45bb 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 1dcf0e214a22..9a651366d385 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 */