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=-6.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham 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 5B4DBC10F11 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 03:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B64E217FA for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2019 03:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2388791AbfDYDGr (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:06:47 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:60616 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2387808AbfDYDGq (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Apr 2019 23:06:46 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9920E374; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.163.1.68] (unknown [10.163.1.68]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC24F3F5AF; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 20:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: configurable sparsemem section size To: Pavel Tatashin Cc: James Morris , Sasha Levin , LKML , linux-mm , linux-nvdimm , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Dan Williams , Keith Busch , Vishal L Verma , Dave Jiang , Ross Zwisler , Tom Lendacky , "Huang, Ying" , Fengguang Wu , Borislav Petkov , Bjorn Helgaas , Yaowei Bai , Takashi Iwai , =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgR2xpc3Nl?= , catalin.marinas@arm.com, Will Deacon , rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ard Biesheuvel , andrew.murray@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, Marc Zyngier , sboyd@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org References: <20190423203843.2898-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> <7f7499bd-8d48-945b-6d69-60685a02c8da@arm.com> From: Anshuman Khandual Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:36:38 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/25/2019 01:18 AM, Pavel Tatashin wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:07 AM Anshuman Khandual > wrote: >> >> On 04/24/2019 02:08 AM, Pavel Tatashin wrote: >>> sparsemem section size determines the maximum size and alignment that >>> is allowed to offline/online memory block. The bigger the size the less >>> the clutter in /sys/devices/system/memory/*. On the other hand, however, >>> there is less flexability in what granules of memory can be added and >>> removed. >> >> Is there any scenario where less than a 1GB needs to be added on arm64 ? > > Yes, DAX hotplug loses 1G of memory without allowing smaller sections. > Machines on which we are going to be using this functionality have 8G > of System RAM, therefore losing 1G is a big problem. > > For details about using scenario see this cover letter: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190421014429.31206-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com/ Its loosing 1GB because devdax has 2M alignment ? IIRC from Dan's subsection memory hot add series 2M comes from persistent memory HW controller's limitations. Does that limitation applicable across all platforms including arm64 for all possible persistent memory vendors. I mean is it universal ? IIUC subsection memory hot plug series is still getting reviewed. Hence should not we wait for it to get merged before enabling applicable platforms to accommodate these 2M limitations. > >> >>> >>> Recently, it was enabled in Linux to hotadd persistent memory that >>> can be either real NV device, or reserved from regular System RAM >>> and has identity of devdax. >> >> devdax (even ZONE_DEVICE) support has not been enabled on arm64 yet. > > Correct, I use your patches to enable ZONE_DEVICE, and thus devdax on ARM64: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1554265806-11501-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com/ > >> >>> >>> The problem is that because ARM64's section size is 1G, and devdax must >>> have 2M label section, the first 1G is always missed when device is >>> attached, because it is not 1G aligned. >> >> devdax has to be 2M aligned ? Does Linux enforce that right now ? > > Unfortunately, there is no way around this. Part of the memory can be > reserved as persistent memory via device tree. > memory@40000000 { > device_type = "memory"; > reg = < 0x00000000 0x40000000 > 0x00000002 0x00000000 >; > }; > > pmem@1c0000000 { > compatible = "pmem-region"; > reg = <0x00000001 0xc0000000 > 0x00000000 0x80000000>; > volatile; > numa-node-id = <0>; > }; > > So, while pmem is section aligned, as it should be, the dax device is > going to be pmem start address + label size, which is 2M. The actual Forgive my ignorance here but why dax device label size is 2M aligned. Again is that because of some persistent memory HW controller limitations ? > DAX device starts at: > 0x1c0000000 + 2M. > > Because section size is 1G, the hotplug will able to add only memory > starting from > 0x1c0000000 + 1G Got it but as mentioned before we will have to make sure that 2M alignment requirement is universal else we will be adjusting this multiple times. > >> 27 and 28 do not even compile for ARM64_64_PAGES because of MAX_ORDER and >> SECTION_SIZE mismatch. Even with 27 bits its 128 MB section size. How does it solve the problem with 2M ? The patch just wanted to reduce the memory wastage ? > > Can you please elaborate what configs are you using? I have no > problems compiling with 27 and 28 bit. After applying your patch [1] on current mainline kernel [2]. $make defconfig CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48=y CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS=48 CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS_48=y CONFIG_ARM64_PA_BITS=48 CONFIG_ARM64_SECTION_SIZE_BITS=27 [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10913737/ [2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git It fails with CC arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.s In file included from ./include/linux/gfp.h:6, from ./include/linux/slab.h:15, from ./include/linux/resource_ext.h:19, from ./include/linux/acpi.h:26, from ./include/acpi/apei.h:9, from ./include/acpi/ghes.h:5, from ./include/linux/arm_sdei.h:14, from arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c:21: ./include/linux/mmzone.h:1095:2: error: #error Allocator MAX_ORDER exceeds SECTION_SIZE #error Allocator MAX_ORDER exceeds SECTION_SIZE