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memory-hotplug: add zone_for_memory() for selecting zone for new memory
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This series of patches fixes a problem when adding memory in bad manner.
For example: for a x86_64 machine booted with "mem=400M" and with 2GiB
memory installed, following commands cause problem:

  # echo 0x40000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
 [   28.613895] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x40000000-0x47ffffff]
  # echo 0x48000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
 [   28.693675] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x48000000-0x4fffffff]
  # echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state
  # echo 0x50000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
 [   29.084090] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x50000000-0x57ffffff]
  # echo 0x58000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
 [   29.151880] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x58000000-0x5fffffff]
  # echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state
  # echo online> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory8/state
  # echo online> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/state
  # echo offline> /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state
 [   30.558819] Offlined Pages 32768
  # free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
 Mem:        780588 18014398509432020     830552          0          0      51180
 -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509380840     881732
 Swap:            0          0          0

This is because the above commands probe higher memory after online a
section with online_movable, which causes ZONE_HIGHMEM (or ZONE_NORMAL
for systems without ZONE_HIGHMEM) overlaps ZONE_MOVABLE.

After the second online_movable, the problem can be observed from
zoneinfo:

  # cat /proc/zoneinfo
  ...
  Node 0, zone  Movable
    pages free     65491
          min      250
          low      312
          high     375
          scanned  0
          spanned  18446744073709518848
          present  65536
          managed  65536
  ...

This series of patches solve the problem by checking ZONE_MOVABLE when
choosing zone for new memory.  If new memory is inside or higher than
ZONE_MOVABLE, makes it go there instead.

After applying this series of patches, following are free and zoneinfo
result (after offlining memory9):

  bash-4.2# free
                total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:        780956      80112     700844          0          0      51180
   -/+ buffers/cache:      28932     752024
   Swap:            0          0          0

  bash-4.2# cat /proc/zoneinfo

  Node 0, zone      DMA
    pages free     3389
          min      14
          low      17
          high     21
          scanned  0
          spanned  4095
          present  3998
          managed  3977
      nr_free_pages 3389
  ...
    start_pfn:         1
    inactive_ratio:    1
  Node 0, zone    DMA32
    pages free     73724
          min      341
          low      426
          high     511
          scanned  0
          spanned  98304
          present  98304
          managed  92958
      nr_free_pages 73724
    ...
    start_pfn:         4096
    inactive_ratio:    1
  Node 0, zone   Normal
    pages free     32630
          min      120
          low      150
          high     180
          scanned  0
          spanned  32768
          present  32768
          managed  32768
      nr_free_pages 32630
  ...
    start_pfn:         262144
    inactive_ratio:    1
  Node 0, zone  Movable
    pages free     65476
          min      241
          low      301
          high     361
          scanned  0
          spanned  98304
          present  65536
          managed  65536
      nr_free_pages 65476
  ...
    start_pfn:         294912
    inactive_ratio:    1

This patch (of 7):

Introduce zone_for_memory() in arch independent code for
arch_add_memory() use.

Many arch_add_memory() function simply selects ZONE_HIGHMEM or
ZONE_NORMAL and add new memory into it.  However, with the existance of
ZONE_MOVABLE, the selection method should be carefully considered: if
new, higher memory is added after ZONE_MOVABLE is setup, the default
zone and ZONE_MOVABLE may overlap each other.

should_add_memory_movable() checks the status of ZONE_MOVABLE.  If it
has already contain memory, compare the address of new memory and
movable memory.  If new memory is higher than movable, it should be
added into ZONE_MOVABLE instead of default zone.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: "Mel Gorman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
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Expand Up @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static inline void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {}
extern int walk_memory_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
void *arg, int (*func)(struct memory_block *, void *));
extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default);
extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem);
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28 changes: 28 additions & 0 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -1159,6 +1159,34 @@ static int check_hotplug_memory_range(u64 start, u64 size)
return 0;
}

/*
* If movable zone has already been setup, newly added memory should be check.
* If its address is higher than movable zone, it should be added as movable.
* Without this check, movable zone may overlap with other zone.
*/
static int should_add_memory_movable(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
{
unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pg_data_t *pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
struct zone *movable_zone = pgdat->node_zones + ZONE_MOVABLE;

if (zone_is_empty(movable_zone))
return 0;

if (movable_zone->zone_start_pfn <= start_pfn)
return 1;

return 0;
}

int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default)
{
if (should_add_memory_movable(nid, start, size))
return ZONE_MOVABLE;

return zone_default;
}

/* we are OK calling __meminit stuff here - we have CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
int __ref add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
{
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