From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A60C43381 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBC664F6E for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229880AbhCSJ1P (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2021 05:27:15 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:52382 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229847AbhCSJ0p (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2021 05:26:45 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8ECEAC2E; Fri, 19 Mar 2021 09:26:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Oscar Salvador To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Hildenbrand , Michal Hocko , Anshuman Khandual , Vlastimil Babka , Pavel Tatashin , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador Subject: [PATCH v5 3/5] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:26:33 +0100 Message-Id: <20210319092635.6214-4-osalvador@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.13.7 In-Reply-To: <20210319092635.6214-1-osalvador@suse.de> References: <20210319092635.6214-1-osalvador@suse.de> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is unsuitable for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks, so make this an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled. To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as suggested by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter. Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ mm/Makefile | 5 ++++- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 10 +++++++++- 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 04545725f187..d29b96e50c5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2794,6 +2794,22 @@ seconds. Use this parameter to check at some other rate. 0 disables periodic checking. + memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory + [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature. + Format: {on | off (default)} + When enabled, memory to build the pages tables for the + memmap array describing the hot-added range will be taken + from the range itself, so the memmap page tables will be + self-hosted. + Since only single memory device ranges are supported at + the moment, this option is disabled by default because + it might have an impact on workloads that needs large + contiguous memory chunks. + The state of the flag can be read in + /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory. + Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where + the feature is not effective. + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest Format: default : 0 diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile index 72227b24a616..82ae9482f5e3 100644 --- a/mm/Makefile +++ b/mm/Makefile @@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \ page-alloc-y := page_alloc.o page-alloc-$(CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR) += shuffle.o +# Give 'memory_hotplug' its own module-parameter namespace +memory-hotplug-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o + obj-y += page-alloc.o obj-y += init-mm.o obj-y += memblock.o +obj-y += $(memory-hotplug-y) ifdef CONFIG_MMU obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS) += madvise.o @@ -83,7 +87,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN) += kasan/ obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/ obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o -obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST) += memtest.o obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 350cde69a97d..c525e5dab859 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -42,7 +42,15 @@ #include "internal.h" #include "shuffle.h" -static bool memmap_on_memory; + +/* + * memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter + */ +static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init; +#ifdef CONFIG_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY +module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug"); +#endif /* * online_page_callback contains pointer to current page onlining function. -- 2.16.3