Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names

From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: piliu@redhat.com, Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow arch override of non boot memory resource names
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 13:49:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200402054946.GA97238@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200326180730.4754-3-james.morse@arm.com>

On 03/26/20 at 06:07pm, James Morse wrote:
> Memory added to the system by hotplug has a 'System RAM' resource created
> for it. This is exposed to user-space via /proc/iomem.
> 
> This poses problems for kexec on arm64. If kexec decides to place the
> kernel in one of these newly onlined regions, the new kernel will find
> itself booting from a region not described as memory in the firmware
> tables.
> 
> Arm64 doesn't have a structure like the e820 memory map that can be
> re-written when memory is brought online. Instead arm64 uses the UEFI
> memory map, or the memory node from the DT, sometimes both. We never
> rewrite these.

Could arm64 use similar way to update DT, or a cooked UEFI maps?

Add pingfan in cc, he said ppc64 update the DT after a memremove thus it
would be good to just redo a kexec load.

Added Pingfan and Hari for comments and corrections.

> 
> Allow an architecture to specify a different name for these hotplug
> regions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 0a54ffac8c68..69b03dd7fc74 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
>  #include "internal.h"
>  #include "shuffle.h"
>  
> +#ifndef MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RES_NAME
> +#define MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RES_NAME "System RAM"
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * online_page_callback contains pointer to current page onlining function.
>   * Initially it is generic_online_page(). If it is required it could be
> @@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ static struct resource *register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size)
>  {
>  	struct resource *res;
>  	unsigned long flags =  IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY;
> -	char *resource_name = "System RAM";
> +	char *resource_name = MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RES_NAME;
>  
>  	if (start + size > max_mem_size)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-E2BIG);
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
> 
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