Pages used by the kernel cannot be migrated. As a result, hotpluggable memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed. So for memory hotplug users, the kernel should not use hotpluggable memory. Since now we have flags in memblock, we introduce a MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE flag to mark hotpluggable memory. At the early time, we use memblock to reserve hotpluggable memory, and mark it with MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE flag. When the system is up, we free these memory with MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE flag to the buddy, and arrange them into ZONE_MOVABLE. In this way, the kernel won't be able to use it. This patch introduces MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE flag, and an API to reserve memory with MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE flag. This is a preparation for the coming patches. Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/memblock.h | 2 ++ mm/memblock.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h index 93f3453..90b49ee 100644 --- a/include/linux/memblock.h +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ /* Definition of memblock flags. */ #define MEMBLK_FLAGS_DEFAULT 0x0 /* default flag */ +#define MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE 0x1 /* hotpluggable region */ struct memblock_region { phys_addr_t base; @@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ int memblock_add(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_remove(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_free(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); int memblock_reserve(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size); +int memblock_reserve_hotpluggable(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size, int nid); void memblock_trim_memory(phys_addr_t align); #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c index 9e871e9..73fe62d 100644 --- a/mm/memblock.c +++ b/mm/memblock.c @@ -586,6 +586,12 @@ int __init_memblock memblock_reserve(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size) MEMBLK_FLAGS_DEFAULT); } +int __init_memblock memblock_reserve_hotpluggable(phys_addr_t base, + phys_addr_t size, int nid) +{ + return memblock_reserve_region(base, size, nid, MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE); +} + /** * __next_free_mem_range - next function for for_each_free_mem_range() * @idx: pointer to u64 loop variable -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html