Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is unsuitable
for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks, so make this
an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled.
To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as suggested
by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter.
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
mm/Makefile | 5 ++++-
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 10 +++++++++-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 04545725f187..d29b96e50c5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2794,6 +2794,22 @@
seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
+ memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
+ [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
+ Format: {on | off (default)}
+ When enabled, memory to build the pages tables for the
+ memmap array describing the hot-added range will be taken
+ from the range itself, so the memmap page tables will be
+ self-hosted.
+ Since only single memory device ranges are supported at
+ the moment, this option is disabled by default because
+ it might have an impact on workloads that needs large
+ contiguous memory chunks.
+ The state of the flag can be read in
+ /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
+ Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
+ the feature is not effective.
+
memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 72227b24a616..82ae9482f5e3 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
page-alloc-y := page_alloc.o
page-alloc-$(CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR) += shuffle.o
+# Give 'memory_hotplug' its own module-parameter namespace
+memory-hotplug-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
+
obj-y += page-alloc.o
obj-y += init-mm.o
obj-y += memblock.o
+obj-y += $(memory-hotplug-y)
ifdef CONFIG_MMU
obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS) += madvise.o
@@ -83,7 +87,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN) += kasan/
obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/
obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST) += memtest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 350cde69a97d..c525e5dab859 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -42,7 +42,15 @@
#include "internal.h"
#include "shuffle.h"
-static bool memmap_on_memory;
+
+/*
+ * memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter
+ */
+static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
+module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug");
+#endif
/*
* online_page_callback contains pointer to current page onlining function.
--
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