Hi Vishal,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> With DAX memory regions originating from CXL memory expanders or
> NVDIMMs, the kmem driver may be hot-adding huge amounts of system memory
> on a system without enough 'regular' main memory to support the memmap
> for it. To avoid this, ensure that all kmem managed hotplugged memory is
> added with the MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY flag to place the memmap on the
> new memory region being hot added.
>
Some architectures doesn't have support for MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY, bypassing
the check mhp_memmap_on_memory() might cause problems on such
architectures (for e.g PPC64).
> To do this, call add_memory() in chunks of memory_block_size_bytes() as
> that is a requirement for memmap_on_memory. Additionally, Use the
> mhp_flag to force the memmap_on_memory checks regardless of the
> respective module parameter setting.
>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/dax/kmem.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/kmem.c b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> index 7b36db6f1cbd..0751346193ef 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/mman.h>
> #include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
> +#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
> #include "dax-private.h"
> #include "bus.h"
>
> @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ static int dev_dax_kmem_probe(struct dev_dax *dev_dax)
> data->mgid = rc;
>
> for (i = 0; i < dev_dax->nr_range; i++) {
> + u64 cur_start, cur_len, remaining;
> struct resource *res;
> struct range range;
>
> @@ -137,21 +139,42 @@ static int dev_dax_kmem_probe(struct dev_dax *dev_dax)
> res->flags = IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM;
>
> /*
> - * Ensure that future kexec'd kernels will not treat
> - * this as RAM automatically.
> + * Add memory in chunks of memory_block_size_bytes() so that
> + * it is considered for MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
> + * @range has already been aligned to memory_block_size_bytes(),
> + * so the following loop will always break it down cleanly.
> */
> - rc = add_memory_driver_managed(data->mgid, range.start,
> - range_len(&range), kmem_name, MHP_NID_IS_MGID);
> + cur_start = range.start;
> + cur_len = memory_block_size_bytes();
> + remaining = range_len(&range);
> + while (remaining) {
> + mhp_t mhp_flags = MHP_NID_IS_MGID;
>
> - if (rc) {
> - dev_warn(dev, "mapping%d: %#llx-%#llx memory add failed\n",
> - i, range.start, range.end);
> - remove_resource(res);
> - kfree(res);
> - data->res[i] = NULL;
> - if (mapped)
> - continue;
> - goto err_request_mem;
> + if (mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(cur_len,
> + MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY))
> + mhp_flags |= MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY;
> + /*
> + * Ensure that future kexec'd kernels will not treat
> + * this as RAM automatically.
> + */
> + rc = add_memory_driver_managed(data->mgid, cur_start,
> + cur_len, kmem_name,
> + mhp_flags);
> +
> + if (rc) {
> + dev_warn(dev,
> + "mapping%d: %#llx-%#llx memory add failed\n",
> + i, cur_start, cur_start + cur_len - 1);
> + remove_resource(res);
> + kfree(res);
> + data->res[i] = NULL;
> + if (mapped)
> + continue;
> + goto err_request_mem;
> + }
> +
> + cur_start += cur_len;
> + remaining -= cur_len;
> }
> mapped++;
> }
>
> --
> 2.40.1
