Hi Tang,
On 2013/9/13 17:30, Tang Chen wrote:
> The Linux kernel cannot migrate pages used by the kernel. As a result, kernel
> pages cannot be hot-removed. So we cannot allocate hotpluggable memory for
> the kernel.
>
> ACPI SRAT (System Resource Affinity Table) contains the memory hotplug info.
> But before SRAT is parsed, memblock has already started to allocate memory
> for the kernel. So we need to prevent memblock from doing this.
>
> In a memory hotplug system, any numa node the kernel resides in should
> be unhotpluggable. And for a modern server, each node could have at least
> 16GB memory. So memory around the kernel image is highly likely unhotpluggable.
>
> So the basic idea is: Allocate memory from the end of the kernel image and
> to the higher memory. Since memory allocation before SRAT is parsed won't
> be too much, it could highly likely be in the same node with kernel image.
>
> The current memblock can only allocate memory from high address to low.
> So this patch introduces the allocation direct to memblock. It could be
> used to tell memblock to allocate memory from high to low or from low
> to high.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/memblock.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/memblock.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
> index 31e95ac..a7d3436 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
> @@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
>
> #define INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS 128
>
> +/* Allocation order. */
s/order/direction/
> +#define MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_HIGH_TO_LOW 0
> +#define MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_LOW_TO_HIGH 1
> +#define MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_DEFAULT MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_HIGH_TO_LOW
> +
> struct memblock_region {
> phys_addr_t base;
> phys_addr_t size;
> @@ -35,6 +40,7 @@ struct memblock_type {
> };
>
> struct memblock {
> + int current_direction; /* allocate from higher or lower address */
> phys_addr_t current_limit;
> struct memblock_type memory;
> struct memblock_type reserved;
> @@ -148,6 +154,12 @@ phys_addr_t memblock_alloc_try_nid(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, int nid)
>
> phys_addr_t memblock_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align);
>
> +static inline bool memblock_direction_bottom_up(void)
> +{
> + return memblock.current_direction == MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_LOW_TO_HIGH;
> +}
> +
> +
> /* Flags for memblock_alloc_base() amd __memblock_alloc_base() */
> #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE (~(phys_addr_t)0)
> #define MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE 0
> @@ -175,6 +187,16 @@ static inline void memblock_dump_all(void)
> }
>
> /**
> + * memblock_set_current_direction - Set current allocation direction to allow
> + * allocating memory from higher to lower
> + * address or from lower to higher address
> + *
> + * @direction: In which order to allocate memory. Could be
s/order/direction/
> + * MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_{HIGH_TO_LOW|LOW_TO_HIGH}
> + */
> +void memblock_set_current_direction(int direction);
> +
> +/**
> * memblock_set_current_limit - Set the current allocation limit to allow
> * limiting allocations to what is currently
> * accessible during boot
> diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
> index 0ac412a..f24ca2e 100644
> --- a/mm/memblock.c
> +++ b/mm/memblock.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct memblock memblock __initdata_memblock = {
> .reserved.cnt = 1, /* empty dummy entry */
> .reserved.max = INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS,
>
> + .current_direction = MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_DEFAULT,
> .current_limit = MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE,
> };
>
> @@ -995,6 +996,18 @@ void __init_memblock memblock_trim_memory(phys_addr_t align)
> }
> }
>
> +void __init_memblock memblock_set_current_direction(int direction)
> +{
> + if (direction != MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_HIGH_TO_LOW &&
> + direction != MEMBLOCK_DIRECTION_LOW_TO_HIGH) {
> + pr_warn("memblock: Failed to set allocation order. "
> + "Invalid order type: %d\n", direction);
s/order/direction/
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + memblock.current_direction = direction;
> +}
> +
> void __init_memblock memblock_set_current_limit(phys_addr_t limit)
> {
> memblock.current_limit = limit;
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