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Tsirkin" , Heiko Carstens , Cornelia Huck , Halil Pasic , qemu-s390x@nongnu.org, Claudio Imbrenda , Richard Henderson Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 10.07.20 11:17, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 09.07.20 20:15, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 09.07.20 12:52, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >>> >>> On 08.07.20 20:51, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> Let's implement the "storage configuration" part of diag260. This diag >>>> is found under z/VM, to indicate usable chunks of memory tot he guest OS. >>>> As I don't have access to documentation, I have no clue what the actual >>>> error cases are, and which other stuff we could eventually query using this >>>> interface. Somebody with access to documentation should fix this. This >>>> implementation seems to work with Linux guests just fine. >>>> >>>> The Linux kernel supports diag260 to query the available memory since >>>> v4.20. Older kernels / kvm-unit-tests will later fail to run in such a VM >>>> (with maxmem being defined and bigger than the memory size, e.g., "-m >>>> 2G,maxmem=4G"), just as if support for SCLP storage information is not >>>> implemented. They will fail to detect the actual initial memory size. >>>> >>>> This interface allows us to expose the maximum ramsize via sclp >>>> and the initial ramsize via diag260 - without having to mess with the >>>> memory increment size and having to align the initial memory size to it. >>>> >>>> This is a preparation for memory device support. We'll unlock the >>>> implementation with a new QEMU machine that supports memory devices. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand >>> >>> I have not looked into this, so this is purely a question. >>> >>> Is there a way to hotplug virtio-mem memory beyond the initial size of >>> the memory as specified by the initial sclp)? then we could avoid doing >>> this platform specfic diag260? >> >> We need a way to tell the guest about the maximum possible PFN, so it >> can prepare for that. E.g. on x86-64 this is usually done via ACPI SRAT >> tables. On s390x, the only way I see is using a combination of diag260, >> without introducing any other new mechanisms. >> >> Currently Linux selects 3. vs 4 level page tables based on that size (I >> think that's what you were referring to with the 4TB limit). I can see >> that kasan also does some magic based on the value ("populate kasan >> shadow for untracked memory"), but did not look into the details. I >> *think* kasan will never be able to track that memory, but am not >> completely sure. >> >> I'd like to avoid something as you propose (that's why I searched and >> discovered diag260 after all :) ), especially to not silently break in >> the future, when other assumptions based on that value are introduced. >> >> E.g., on my z/VM LinuxOne Community Cloud machine, diag260 gets used as >> default, so it does not seem to be a corner case mechanism nowadays. >> > > Note: Reading about diag260 subcode 0xc, we could modify Linux to query > the maximum possible pfn via diag260 0xc. Then, we maybe could avoid > indicating maxram size via SCLP, and keep diag260-unaware OSs keep > working as before. Thoughts? Implemented it, seems to work fine. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb