Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] mm/hotplug: Embed vmem_altmap details in memory block

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On 06.07.23 10:50, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
With memmap on memory, some architecture needs more details w.r.t altmap
such as base_pfn, end_pfn, etc to unmap vmemmap memory.

Can you elaborate why ppc64 needs that and x86-64 + aarch64 don't?

IOW, why can't ppc64 simply allocate the vmemmap from the start of the memblock (-> base_pfn) and use the stored number of vmemmap pages to calculate the end_pfn?

To rephrase: if the vmemmap is not at the beginning and doesn't cover full apgeblocks, memory onlining/offlining would be broken.

[...]

+/**
+ * struct vmem_altmap - pre-allocated storage for vmemmap_populate
+ * @base_pfn: base of the entire dev_pagemap mapping
+ * @reserve: pages mapped, but reserved for driver use (relative to @base)
+ * @free: free pages set aside in the mapping for memmap storage
+ * @align: pages reserved to meet allocation alignments
+ * @alloc: track pages consumed, private to vmemmap_populate()
+ */
+struct vmem_altmap {
+	unsigned long base_pfn;
+	const unsigned long end_pfn;
+	const unsigned long reserve;
+	unsigned long free;
+	unsigned long align;
+	unsigned long alloc;
+};

Instead of embedding that, what about conditionally allocating it and store a pointer to it in the "struct memory_block"?

In the general case as of today, we don't have an altmap.

+
  struct memory_block {
  	unsigned long start_section_nr;
  	unsigned long state;		/* serialized by the dev->lock */
@@ -77,11 +94,7 @@ struct memory_block {
  	 */
  	struct zone *zone;
  	struct device dev;
-	/*
-	 * Number of vmemmap pages. These pages
-	 * lay at the beginning of the memory block.
-	 */
-	unsigned long nr_vmemmap_pages;
+	struct vmem_altmap altmap;
  	struct memory_group *group;	/* group (if any) for this block */
  	struct list_head group_next;	/* next block inside memory group */
  #if defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) && defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
@@ -147,7 +160,7 @@ static inline int hotplug_memory_notifier(notifier_fn_t fn, int pri)
  extern int register_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
  extern void unregister_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
  int create_memory_block_devices(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,

[...]

  static int check_cpu_on_node(int nid)
@@ -2036,9 +2042,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node);
static int __ref try_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
  {
-	struct vmem_altmap mhp_altmap = {};
+	int ret;
  	struct vmem_altmap *altmap = NULL;
-	unsigned long nr_vmemmap_pages;
  	int rc = 0, nid = NUMA_NO_NODE;
BUG_ON(check_hotplug_memory_range(start, size));
@@ -2060,24 +2065,16 @@ static int __ref try_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
  	 * We only support removing memory added with MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY in
  	 * the same granularity it was added - a single memory block.
  	 */
+

^ unrealted change?

--
Cheers,

David / dhildenb





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