From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 11:34:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c908ec3-9495-531e-9291-cbab24f292d6@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200430152403.e0d6da5eb1cad06411ac6d46@linux-foundation.org>
On 01.05.20 00:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:43:39 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Why does the firmware map support hotplug entries?
>>
>> I assume:
>>
>> The firmware memmap was added primarily for x86-64 kexec (and still, is
>> mostly used on x86-64 only IIRC). There, we had ACPI hotplug. When DIMMs
>> get hotplugged on real HW, they get added to e820. Same applies to
>> memory added via HyperV balloon (unless memory is unplugged via
>> ballooning and you reboot ... the the e820 is changed as well). I assume
>> we wanted to be able to reflect that, to make kexec look like a real reboot.
>>
>> This worked for a while. Then came dax/kmem. Now comes virtio-mem.
>>
>>
>> But I assume only Andrew can enlighten us.
>>
>> @Andrew, any guidance here? Should we really add all memory to the
>> firmware memmap, even if this contradicts with the existing
>> documentation? (especially, if the actual firmware memmap will *not*
>> contain that memory after a reboot)
>
> For some reason that patch is misattributed - it was authored by
> Shaohui Zheng <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>, who hasn't been heard from in
> a decade. I looked through the email discussion from that time and I'm
> not seeing anything useful. But I wasn't able to locate Dave Hansen's
> review comments.
Okay, thanks for checking. I think the documentation from 2008 is pretty
clear what has to be done here. I will add some of these details to the
patch description.
Also, now that I know that esp. kexec-tools already don't consider
dax/kmem memory properly (memory will not get dumped via kdump) and
won't really suffer from a name change in /proc/iomem, I will go back to
the MHP_DRIVER_MANAGED approach and
1. Don't create firmware memmap entries
2. Name the resource "System RAM (driver managed)"
3. Flag the resource via something like IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED.
This way, kernel users and user space can figure out that this memory
has different semantics and handle it accordingly - I think that was
what Eric was asking for.
Of course, open for suggestions.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-01 9:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 10:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow to not create firmware memmap entries David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Prepare passing flags to add_memory() and friends David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 15:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 15:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 16:04 ` Dave Hansen
2020-04-30 16:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 16:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 18:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 18:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 18:58 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-30 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-01 9:34 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-05-01 16:56 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 17:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 17:39 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 17:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 17:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 18:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 18:43 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 19:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 21:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 21:52 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-02 9:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-02 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] device-dax: Add system ram (add_memory()) with MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 11:23 ` Dave Hansen
2020-04-30 15:28 ` David Hildenbrand
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