From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
pbonzini@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
mst@redhat.com, gleb@kernel.org, mtosatti@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 08/33] exec: allow memory to be allocated from any kind of path
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:55:31 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151031135531.GD7865@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56347167.3060206@linux.intel.com>
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:44:39PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 10/30/2015 10:04 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> >On 30.10.2015 08:56, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>Currently file_ram_alloc() is designed for hugetlbfs, however, the memory
> >>of nvdimm can come from either raw pmem device eg, /dev/pmem, or the file
> >>locates at DAX enabled filesystem
> >>
> >>So this patch let it work on any kind of path
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
[...]
> >>- block->mr->align = hpagesize;
> >>- if (memory < hpagesize) {
> >>+ if (pagesize == getpagesize()) {
> >>+ fprintf(stderr, "Memory is not allocated from HugeTlbfs.\n");
> >>+ }
> >
> >It is strange to see this warning every time.
> >
> >Shouldn't the differentiation be done explicitly in command line? May be separate option mem-tlb, or
> >separate flag tlbfs=on, or for new feature - new option mem-file, or prefixes for paths (tlbfs://,
> >file://).. Or the other way to not mix things but split them.
>
> This is just a reminder to users. Currently Qemu do not stop user to append a regular file
> for its backend memory, particularly, hugetlbfs is not the only way to use HugePage for
> the THP-enabled system.
>
> We can implement your idea as a independent patchset in the future.
Isn't the whole point of this patch to make the code not specific to
hugetlbfs anymore? It makes the warning obsolete.
--
Eduardo
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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, gleb@kernel.org,
mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com,
imammedo@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 08/33] exec: allow memory to be allocated from any kind of path
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:55:31 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151031135531.GD7865@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56347167.3060206@linux.intel.com>
On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:44:39PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 10/30/2015 10:04 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> >On 30.10.2015 08:56, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>Currently file_ram_alloc() is designed for hugetlbfs, however, the memory
> >>of nvdimm can come from either raw pmem device eg, /dev/pmem, or the file
> >>locates at DAX enabled filesystem
> >>
> >>So this patch let it work on any kind of path
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
[...]
> >>- block->mr->align = hpagesize;
> >>- if (memory < hpagesize) {
> >>+ if (pagesize == getpagesize()) {
> >>+ fprintf(stderr, "Memory is not allocated from HugeTlbfs.\n");
> >>+ }
> >
> >It is strange to see this warning every time.
> >
> >Shouldn't the differentiation be done explicitly in command line? May be separate option mem-tlb, or
> >separate flag tlbfs=on, or for new feature - new option mem-file, or prefixes for paths (tlbfs://,
> >file://).. Or the other way to not mix things but split them.
>
> This is just a reminder to users. Currently Qemu do not stop user to append a regular file
> for its backend memory, particularly, hugetlbfs is not the only way to use HugePage for
> the THP-enabled system.
>
> We can implement your idea as a independent patchset in the future.
Isn't the whole point of this patch to make the code not specific to
hugetlbfs anymore? It makes the warning obsolete.
--
Eduardo
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2015-10-30 5:55 [PATCH v6 00/33] implement vNVDIMM Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 01/33] acpi: add aml_derefof Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 02/33] acpi: add aml_sizeof Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 03/33] acpi: add aml_create_field Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 04/33] acpi: add aml_concatenate Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [PATCH v6 05/33] acpi: add aml_object_type Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 12:40 ` Igor Mammedov
2015-11-09 12:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Igor Mammedov
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 06/33] acpi: add aml_method_serialized Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:18 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 07/33] util: introduce qemu_file_get_page_size() Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 13:26 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 13:26 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 7:26 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 7:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 9:37 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 9:37 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 14:06 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 14:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 15:54 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-30 15:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 8:09 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 8:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 14:11 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 14:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 17:03 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 20:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-31 8:25 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 8:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:55 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 08/33] exec: allow memory to be allocated from any kind of path Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 14:04 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 14:04 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 7:44 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 13:55 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2015-10-31 13:55 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 15:56 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 15:56 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:01 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 09/33] exec: allow file_ram_alloc to work on file Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 14:25 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 14:25 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 7:53 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 7:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:48 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 10/33] hostmem-file: clean up memory allocation Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 14:54 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 14:54 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 11/33] hostmem-file: use whole file size if possible Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 15:27 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 15:27 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 7:59 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 7:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 17:30 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-30 17:30 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 8:46 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 8:46 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 13:45 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 13:45 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-31 16:59 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 16:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:49 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 12/33] pc-dimm: remove DEFAULT_PC_DIMMSIZE Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 10:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 10:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:03 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 13/33] pc-dimm: make pc_existing_dimms_capacity static and rename it Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 15:38 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 15:38 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 14/33] pc-dimm: drop the prefix of pc-dimm Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 16:10 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 16:10 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 8:18 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 17:06 ` Eric Blake
2015-10-31 8:23 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 20:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 15/33] stubs: rename qmp_pc_dimm_device_list.c Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 16/33] pc-dimm: rename pc-dimm.c and pc-dimm.h Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 10:28 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 10:28 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 17/33] dimm: abstract dimm device from pc-dimm Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 10:41 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 10:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 18/33] dimm: get mapped memory region from DIMMDeviceClass->get_memory_region Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 10:52 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 10:52 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 14:15 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 14:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-02 9:18 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 19/33] dimm: keep the state of the whole backend memory Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 11:05 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 11:05 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 14:19 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 11:13 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 11:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 20/33] dimm: introduce realize callback Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-31 11:22 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-31 11:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 21/33] nvdimm: implement NVDIMM device abstract Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 22/33] docs: add NVDIMM ACPI documentation Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 23/33] nvdimm acpi: init the resource used by NVDIMM ACPI Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 24/33] nvdimm acpi: build ACPI NFIT table Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 25/33] nvdimm acpi: build ACPI nvdimm devices Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-08 17:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-08 17:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 6:07 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 6:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 26/33] nvdimm acpi: save arg3 for NVDIMM device _DSM method Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 27/33] nvdimm acpi: support function 0 Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 10:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-10-30 10:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-10-30 13:01 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 13:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 28/33] nvdimm acpi: support Get Namespace Label Size function Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 29/33] nvdimm acpi: support Get Namespace Label Data function Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 30/33] nvdimm acpi: support Set " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 31/33] nvdimm: allow using whole backend memory as pmem Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 32/33] nvdimm acpi: support _FIT method Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-08 17:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-08 17:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-09 6:37 ` Xiao Guangrong
2015-11-09 6:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [PATCH v6 33/33] nvdimm: add maintain info Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 5:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Xiao Guangrong
2015-10-30 10:15 ` [PATCH v6 00/33] implement vNVDIMM Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-10-30 10:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
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