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authorDavid Hildenbrand2020-06-04 16:48:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2020-06-04 19:06:23 -0700
commit7b7b27214bba1966772f9213cd2d8e5d67f8487f (patch)
tree410b3d6edbf247b5bad4886debc9341a0cbac01f /include
parent52219aeaf2dc6f7607704af2c40e3866fb04aed2 (diff)
mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_memory_driver_managed()
Patch series "mm/memory_hotplug: Interface to add driver-managed system ram", v4. kexec (via kexec_load()) can currently not properly handle memory added via dax/kmem, and will have similar issues with virtio-mem. kexec-tools will currently add all memory to the fixed-up initial firmware memmap. In case of dax/kmem, this means that - in contrast to a proper reboot - how that persistent memory will be used can no longer be configured by the kexec'd kernel. In case of virtio-mem it will be harmful, because that memory might contain inaccessible pieces that require coordination with hypervisor first. In both cases, we want to let the driver in the kexec'd kernel handle detecting and adding the memory, like during an ordinary reboot. Introduce add_memory_driver_managed(). More on the samentics are in patch #1. In the future, we might want to make this behavior configurable for dax/kmem- either by configuring it in the kernel (which would then also allow to configure kexec_file_load()) or in kexec-tools by also adding "System RAM (kmem)" memory from /proc/iomem to the fixed-up initial firmware memmap. More on the motivation can be found in [1] and [2]. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200429160803.109056-1-david@redhat.com [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200430102908.10107-1-david@redhat.com This patch (of 3): Some device drivers rely on memory they managed to not get added to the initial (firmware) memmap as system RAM - so it's not used as initial system RAM by the kernel and the driver is under control. While this is the case during cold boot and after a reboot, kexec is not aware of that and might add such memory to the initial (firmware) memmap of the kexec kernel. We need ways to teach kernel and userspace that this system ram is different. For example, dax/kmem allows to decide at runtime if persistent memory is to be used as system ram. Another future user is virtio-mem, which has to coordinate with its hypervisor to deal with inaccessible parts within memory resources. We want to let users in the kernel (esp. kexec) but also user space (esp. kexec-tools) know that this memory has different semantics and needs to be handled differently: 1. Don't create entries in /sys/firmware/memmap/ 2. Name the memory resource "System RAM ($DRIVER)" (exposed via /proc/iomem) ($DRIVER might be "kmem", "virtio_mem"). 3. Flag the memory resource IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED /sys/firmware/memmap/ [1] represents the "raw firmware-provided memory map" because "on most architectures that firmware-provided memory map is modified afterwards by the kernel itself". The primary user is kexec on x86-64. Since commit d96ae5309165 ("memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for new memory"), we add all hotplugged memory to that firmware memmap - which makes perfect sense for traditional memory hotplug on x86-64, where real HW will also add hotplugged DIMMs to the firmware memmap. We replicate what the "raw firmware-provided memory map" looks like after hot(un)plug. To keep things simple, let the user provide the full resource name instead of only the driver name - this way, we don't have to manually allocate/craft strings for memory resources. Also use the resource name to make decisions, to avoid passing additional flags. In case the name isn't "System RAM", it's special. We don't have to worry about firmware_map_remove() on the removal path. If there is no entry, it will simply return with -EINVAL. We'll adapt dax/kmem in a follow-up patch. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508084217.9160-1-david@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508084217.9160-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ioport.h1
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memory_hotplug.h2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ioport.h b/include/linux/ioport.h
index a9b9170b5dd2..cc9a5b4593ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/ioport.h
+++ b/include/linux/ioport.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ struct resource {
#define IORESOURCE_MEM_32BIT (3<<3)
#define IORESOURCE_MEM_SHADOWABLE (1<<5) /* dup: IORESOURCE_SHADOWABLE */
#define IORESOURCE_MEM_EXPANSIONROM (1<<6)
+#define IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED (1<<7)
/* PnP I/O specific bits (IORESOURCE_BITS) */
#define IORESOURCE_IO_16BIT_ADDR (1<<0)
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 7dca9cd6076b..fee7fab5d706 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ extern void __ref free_area_init_core_hotplug(int nid);
extern int __add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *resource);
+extern int add_memory_driver_managed(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
+ const char *resource_name);
extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, struct vmem_altmap *altmap);
extern void remove_pfn_range_from_zone(struct zone *zone,