Currently, all newly added memory blocks remain in 'offline' state unless
someone onlines them, some linux distributions carry special udev rules
like:
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online"
to make this happen automatically. This is not a great solution for virtual
machines where memory hotplug is being used to address high memory pressure
situations as such onlining is slow and a userspace process doing this
(udev) has a chance of being killed by the OOM killer as it will probably
require to allocate some memory.
Introduce default policy for the newly added memory blocks in
/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks file with two possible
values: "offline" which preserves the current behavior and "online" which
causes all newly added memory blocks to go online as soon as they're added.
The default is "offline".
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v5:
- Mention possible failures during automatic onlining in memory-hotplug.txt
[David Rientjes]
---
Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/base/memory.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 2 +-
include/linux/memory.h | 3 +++
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 4 +++-
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
6 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index ce2cfcf..443f4b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -256,10 +256,27 @@ If the memory block is offline, you'll read "offline".
5.2. How to online memory
------------
-Even if the memory is hot-added, it is not at ready-to-use state.
-For using newly added memory, you have to "online" the memory block.
+When the memory is hot-added, the kernel decides whether or not to "online"
+it according to the policy which can be read from "auto_online_blocks" file:
-For onlining, you have to write "online" to the memory block's state file as:
+% cat /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
+
+The default is "offline" which means the newly added memory is not in a
+ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added memory blocks
+manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online" to
+"auto_online_blocks" file:
+
+% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
+
+This sets a global policy and impacts all memory blocks that will subsequently
+be hotplugged. Currently offline blocks keep their state. It is possible, under
+certain circumstances, that some memory blocks will be added but will fail to
+online. User space tools can check their "state" files
+(/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state) and try to online them manually.
+
+If the automatic onlining wasn't requested, failed, or some memory block was
+offlined it is possible to change the individual block's state by writing to the
+"state" file:
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 25425d3..4fc240e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ memory_block_action(unsigned long phys_index, unsigned long action, int online_t
return ret;
}
-static int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem,
+int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem,
unsigned long to_state, unsigned long from_state_req)
{
int ret = 0;
@@ -439,6 +439,37 @@ print_block_size(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
static DEVICE_ATTR(block_size_bytes, 0444, print_block_size, NULL);
/*
+ * Memory auto online policy.
+ */
+
+static ssize_t
+show_auto_online_blocks(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf)
+{
+ if (memhp_auto_online)
+ return sprintf(buf, "online\n");
+ else
+ return sprintf(buf, "offline\n");
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+store_auto_online_blocks(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+ if (sysfs_streq(buf, "online"))
+ memhp_auto_online = true;
+ else if (sysfs_streq(buf, "offline"))
+ memhp_auto_online = false;
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(auto_online_blocks, 0644, show_auto_online_blocks,
+ store_auto_online_blocks);
+
+/*
* Some architectures will have custom drivers to do this, and
* will not need to do it from userspace. The fake hot-add code
* as well as ppc64 will do all of their discovery in userspace
@@ -737,6 +768,7 @@ static struct attribute *memory_root_attrs[] = {
#endif
&dev_attr_block_size_bytes.attr,
+ &dev_attr_auto_online_blocks.attr,
NULL
};
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index 12eab50..890c3b5 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ static enum bp_state reserve_additional_memory(void)
}
#endif
- rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource);
+ rc = add_memory_resource(nid, resource, false);
if (rc) {
pr_warn("Cannot add additional memory (%i)\n", rc);
goto err;
diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h
index 8b8d8d1..82730ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory.h
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ extern void unregister_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int register_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern void unregister_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int register_new_memory(int, struct mem_section *);
+extern int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem,
+ unsigned long to_state,
+ unsigned long from_state_req);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
extern int unregister_memory_section(struct mem_section *);
#endif
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 2ea574f..4b7949a 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ extern void __online_page_free(struct page *page);
extern int try_online_node(int nid);
+extern bool memhp_auto_online;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
extern bool is_pageblock_removable_nolock(struct page *page);
extern int arch_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);
@@ -267,7 +269,7 @@ 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 add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *resource);
+extern int add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *resource, bool online);
extern int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default,
bool for_device);
extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index a042a9d..43eb230 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ static struct {
#define memhp_lock_acquire() lock_map_acquire(&mem_hotplug.dep_map)
#define memhp_lock_release() lock_map_release(&mem_hotplug.dep_map)
+bool memhp_auto_online;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memhp_auto_online);
+
void get_online_mems(void)
{
might_sleep();
@@ -1231,8 +1234,13 @@ int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default,
return zone_default;
}
+static int online_memory_block(struct memory_block *mem, void *arg)
+{
+ return memory_block_change_state(mem, MEM_ONLINE, MEM_OFFLINE);
+}
+
/* we are OK calling __meminit stuff here - we have CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
-int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res)
+int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res, bool online)
{
u64 start, size;
pg_data_t *pgdat = NULL;
@@ -1292,6 +1300,11 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res)
/* create new memmap entry */
firmware_map_add_hotplug(start, start + size, "System RAM");
+ /* online pages if requested */
+ if (online)
+ walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1),
+ NULL, online_memory_block);
+
goto out;
error:
@@ -1315,7 +1328,7 @@ int __ref add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
if (!res)
return -EEXIST;
- ret = add_memory_resource(nid, res);
+ ret = add_memory_resource(nid, res, memhp_auto_online);
if (ret < 0)
release_memory_resource(res);
return ret;
--
2.5.0
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