Re: [PATCH V2] mm:memory hot-add: memory can not been added to movable zone

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On 08/21/2015 04:00 AM, Changsheng Liu wrote:

On 08/20/201515:41, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
On 08/20/2015 09:28 AM, Changsheng Liu wrote:
From: Changsheng Liu <liuchangcheng@xxxxxxxxxx>

When memory is hot added, should_add_memory_movable() always returns 0
because the movable zone is empty, so the memory that was hot added will
add to the normal zone even if we want to remove the memory.

I'm not expert on memory hot-plug, but since you CC'd me, I wonder...
the function has this comment: " * If movable zone has already been
setup, newly added memory should be check."

So I read it like "if you want movable memory *at all*, you should do
some setup first" (but don't ask me what setup). After your patch,
every hot-added memory would be automatically movable? Isn't that
silently changing behavior against user expectations? What about those
that don't want to hot-remove and don't want movable zones (which
limit what kind of allocations are possible), is there a way to
prevent memory being movable after your patch?
      After the system startup, we hot added one cpu with memory, The
function arch_add_memory() will add the memory to
      normal zone defaultly but now all zones including normal zone and
movable zone are empty.So If we want to add the memory
      to movable zone we need change should_add_memory_movable().

I have poked a bit at the code and documentation, and I may still not have the complete picture.

Are you using movable_node kernel option to expect all hotpluggable memory to be movable? Then it's probably a bug. But then your patch should probably use movable_node_is_enabled() instead of checking just the config. Otherwise it would be making zone movable also for those who enabled the config, but don't pass the kernel option, and that would be wrong?

Or are you onlining memory by "echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state" without node_movable kernel option?


So we change should_add_memory_movable(): if the user config
CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE it will return 1 when the movable zone is empty.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Changsheng Liu <liuchangcheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dongdong Fan <fandd@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   mm/memory_hotplug.c |    3 +--
   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 26fbba7..ff658f2 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1199,8 +1199,7 @@ static int should_add_memory_movable(int nid,
u64 start, u64 size)
       struct zone *movable_zone = pgdat->node_zones + ZONE_MOVABLE;

       if (zone_is_empty(movable_zone))
-        return 0;
-
+        return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE);
       if (movable_zone->zone_start_pfn <= start_pfn)
           return 1;



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