On 07.07.23 15:30, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
On 7/7/23 5:47 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 06.07.23 18:06, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
On 7/6/23 6:29 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 06.07.23 14:32, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
On 7/6/23 4:44 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 06.07.23 11:36, Aneesh Kumar K V wrote:
On 7/6/23 2:48 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
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.
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With ppc64 and 64K pagesize and different memory block sizes, we can end up allocating vmemmap backing memory from outside altmap because
a single page vmemmap can cover 1024 pages (64 *1024/sizeof(struct page)). and that can point to pages outside the dev_pagemap range.
So on free we check
So you end up with a mixture of altmap and ordinarily-allocated vmemmap pages? That sound wrong (and is counter-intuitive to the feature in general, where we *don't* want to allocate the vmemmap from outside the altmap).
(64 * 1024) / sizeof(struct page) -> 1024 pages
1024 pages * 64k = 64 MiB.
What's the memory block size on these systems? If it's >= 64 MiB the vmemmap of a single memory block fits into a single page and we should be fine.
Smells like you want to disable the feature on a 64k system.
But that part of vmemmap_free is common for both dax,dax kmem and the new memmap on memory feature. ie, ppc64 vmemmap_free have checks which require
a full altmap structure with all the details in. So for memmap on memmory to work on ppc64 we do require similar altmap struct. Hence the idea
of adding vmemmap_altmap to struct memory_block
I'd suggest making sure that for the memmap_on_memory case your really *always* allocate from the altmap (that's what the feature is about after all), and otherwise block the feature (i.e., arch_mhp_supports_... should reject it).
Sure. How about?
bool mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long size)
{
unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long vmemmap_size = nr_pages * sizeof(struct page);
if (!radix_enabled())
return false;
/*
* memmap on memory only supported with memory block size add/remove
*/
if (size != memory_block_size_bytes())
return false;
/*
* Also make sure the vmemmap allocation is fully contianed
* so that we always allocate vmemmap memory from altmap area.
*/
if (!IS_ALIGNED(vmemmap_size, PAGE_SIZE))
return false;
/*
* The pageblock alignment requirement is met by using
* reserve blocks in altmap.
*/
return true;
}
Better, but the PAGE_SIZE that could be added to common code as well.
... but, the pageblock check in common code implies a PAGE_SIZE check, so why do we need any other check besides the radix_enabled() check for arm64 and just keep all the other checks in common code as they are?
If your vmemmap does not cover full pageblocks (which implies full pages), the feature cannot be used *unless* we'd waste altmap space in the vmemmap to cover one pageblock.
Wasting hotplugged memory certainly sounds wrong?
So I appreciate if you could explain why the pageblock check should not be had for ppc64?
If we want things to be aligned to pageblock (2M) we will have to use 2M vmemmap space and that implies a memory block of 2G with 64K page size. That requirements makes the feature not useful at all
on power. The compromise i came to was what i mentioned in the commit message for enabling the feature on ppc64.
As we'll always handle a 2M pageblock, you'll end up wasting memory.
Assume a 64MiB memory block:
With 64k: 1024 pages -> 64k vmemmap, almost 2 MiB wasted. ~3.1 %
With 4k: 16384 pages -> 1 MiB vmemmap, 1 MiB wasted. ~1.5%
It gets worse with smaller memory block sizes.
We use altmap.reserve feature to align things correctly at pageblock granularity. We can end up loosing some pages in memory with this. For ex: with 256MB memory block
size, we require 4 pages to map vmemmap pages, In order to align things correctly we end up adding a reserve of 28 pages. ie, for every 4096 pages
28 pages get reserved.
You can simply align-up the nr_vmemmap_pages up to pageblocks in the
memory hotplug code (e.g., depending on a config/arch knob whether
wasting memory is supported).
Because the pageblock granularity is a memory onlining/offlining
limitation and should be checked+handled exactly there.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
