[RFC v9 PATCH 00/21] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory
Ni zhan Chen
nizhan.chen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 09:45:55 EST 2012
On 10/01/2012 12:44 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> Hi Chen,
>
> 2012/09/29 17:19, Ni zhan Chen wrote:
>> On 09/05/2012 05:25 PM, wency at cn.fujitsu.com wrote:
>>> From: Wen Congyang <wency at cn.fujitsu.com>
>>>
>>> This patch series aims to support physical memory hot-remove.
>>>
>>> The patches can free/remove the following things:
>>>
>>> - acpi_memory_info : [RFC PATCH 4/19]
>>> - /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start, type} : [RFC PATCH 8/19]
>>> - iomem_resource : [RFC PATCH 9/19]
>>> - mem_section and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 10-11,
>>> 13-16/19]
>>> - page table of removed memory : [RFC PATCH 12/19]
>>> - node and related sysfs files : [RFC PATCH 18-19/19]
>>>
>>> If you find lack of function for physical memory hot-remove, please
>>> let me
>>> know.
>>>
>>> How to test this patchset?
>>> 1. apply this patchset and build the kernel. MEMORY_HOTPLUG,
>>> MEMORY_HOTREMOVE,
>>> ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY must be selected.
>>> 2. load the module acpi_memhotplug
>>
>> Hi Yasuaki,
>>
>> where is the acpi_memhotplug module?
>
> If you build acpi_memhotplug as module, it is created under
> /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/driver/acpi/ directory. It depends
> on config ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY. The confing is [*], it becomes built-in
> function. So you don't need to care about it.
> Thanks,
> Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Hi Yasuaki,
I build the kernel, MEMORY_HOTPLUG, MEMORY_HOTREMOVE,
ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY are seleted as [*], but I can't find PNP0C80:XX
under the directory /sys/bus/acpi/devices/.
[root at localhost ~]# ls /sys/bus/acpi/devices/
device:00 device:07 device:0e device:15 device:1c device:23
device:2a LNXCPU:00 LNXCPU:07 PNP0501:00 PNP0C02:00 PNP0C0F:02
PNP0C14:01
device:01 device:08 device:0f device:16 device:1d device:24
device:2b LNXCPU:01 LNXPWRBN:00 PNP0800:00 PNP0C02:01 PNP0C0F:03
PNP0C31:00
device:02 device:09 device:10 device:17 device:1e device:25
device:2c LNXCPU:02 LNXSYSTM:00 PNP0A08:00 PNP0C02:02 PNP0C0F:04
device:03 device:0a device:11 device:18 device:1f device:26
device:2d LNXCPU:03 PNP0000:00 PNP0B00:00 PNP0C04:00 PNP0C0F:05
device:04 device:0b device:12 device:19 device:20 device:27
device:2e LNXCPU:04 PNP0100:00 PNP0C01:00 PNP0C0C:00 PNP0C0F:06
device:05 device:0c device:13 device:1a device:21 device:28
device:2f LNXCPU:05 PNP0103:00 PNP0C01:01 PNP0C0F:00 PNP0C0F:07
device:06 device:0d device:14 device:1b device:22 device:29
INT3F0D:00 LNXCPU:06 PNP0200:00 PNP0C01:02 PNP0C0F:01 PNP0C14:00
then what I miss ? thanks.
>
>>
>>> 3. hotplug the memory device(it depends on your hardware)
>>> You will see the memory device under the directory
>>> /sys/bus/acpi/devices/.
>>> Its name is PNP0C80:XX.
>>> 4. online/offline pages provided by this memory device
>>> You can write online/offline to
>>> /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state to
>>> online/offline pages provided by this memory device
>>> 5. hotremove the memory device
>>> You can hotremove the memory device by the hardware, or writing
>>> 1 to
>>> /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject.
>>>
>>> Note: if the memory provided by the memory device is used by the
>>> kernel, it
>>> can't be offlined. It is not a bug.
>>>
>>> Known problems:
>>> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
>>> For example: there is a memory device on node 1. The address range
>>> is [1G, 1.5G). You will find 4 new directories memory8, memory9,
>>> memory10,
>>> and memory11 under the directory /sys/devices/system/memory/.
>>> If CONFIG_MEMCG is selected, we will allocate memory to store
>>> page cgroup
>>> when we online pages. When we online memory8, the memory stored
>>> page cgroup
>>> is not provided by this memory device. But when we online
>>> memory9, the memory
>>> stored page cgroup may be provided by memory8. So we can't
>>> offline memory8
>>> now. We should offline the memory in the reversed order.
>>> When the memory device is hotremoved, we will auto offline
>>> memory provided
>>> by this memory device. But we don't know which memory is onlined
>>> first, so
>>> offlining memory may fail. In such case, you should offline the
>>> memory by
>>> hand before hotremoving the memory device.
>>> 2. hotremoving memory device may cause kernel panicked
>>> This bug will be fixed by Liu Jiang's patch:
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/3/1
>>>
>>> change log of v9:
>>> [RFC PATCH v9 8/21]
>>> * add a lock to protect the list map_entries
>>> * add an indicator to firmware_map_entry to remember whether the
>>> memory
>>> is allocated from bootmem
>>> [RFC PATCH v9 10/21]
>>> * change the macro to inline function
>>> [RFC PATCH v9 19/21]
>>> * don't offline the node if the cpu on the node is onlined
>>> [RFC PATCH v9 21/21]
>>> * create new patch: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining
>>> memory block
>>> failed
>>>
>>> change log of v8:
>>> [RFC PATCH v8 17/20]
>>> * Fix problems when one node's range include the other nodes
>>> [RFC PATCH v8 18/20]
>>> * fix building error when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE or
>>> CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
>>> is not defined.
>>> [RFC PATCH v8 19/20]
>>> * don't offline node when some memory sections are not removed
>>> [RFC PATCH v8 20/20]
>>> * create new patch: clear hwpoisoned flag when onlining pages
>>>
>>> change log of v7:
>>> [RFC PATCH v7 4/19]
>>> * do not continue if acpi_memory_device_remove_memory() fails.
>>> [RFC PATCH v7 15/19]
>>> * handle usemap in register_page_bootmem_info_section() too.
>>>
>>> change log of v6:
>>> [RFC PATCH v6 12/19]
>>> * fix building error on other archtitectures than x86
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v6 15-16/19]
>>> * fix building error on other archtitectures than x86
>>>
>>> change log of v5:
>>> * merge the patchset to clear page table and the patchset to hot
>>> remove
>>> memory(from ishimatsu) to one big patchset.
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v5 1/19]
>>> * rename remove_memory() to offline_memory()/offline_pages()
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v5 2/19]
>>> * new patch: implement offline_memory(). This function offlines
>>> pages,
>>> update memory block's state, and notify the userspace that the
>>> memory
>>> block's state is changed.
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v5 4/19]
>>> * offline and remove memory in acpi_memory_disable_device() too.
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v5 17/19]
>>> * new patch: add a new function __remove_zone() to revert the
>>> things done
>>> in the function __add_zone().
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v5 18/19]
>>> * flush work befor reseting node device.
>>>
>>> change log of v4:
>>> * remove "memory-hotplug : unify argument of
>>> firmware_map_add_early/hotplug"
>>> from the patch series, since the patch is a bugfix. It is being
>>> disccussed
>>> on other thread. But for testing the patch series, the patch is
>>> needed.
>>> So I added the patch as [PATCH 0/13].
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v4 2/13]
>>> * check memory is online or not at remove_memory()
>>> * add memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() to
>>> acpi_memory_device_remove() for
>>> getting node id
>>> [RFC PATCH v4 3/13]
>>> * create new patch : check memory is online or not at
>>> online_pages()
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v4 4/13]
>>> * add __ref section to remove_memory()
>>> * call firmware_map_remove_entry() before
>>> remove_sysfs_fw_map_entry()
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v4 11/13]
>>> * rewrite register_page_bootmem_memmap() for removing page used
>>> as PT/PMD
>>>
>>> change log of v3:
>>> * rebase to 3.5.0-rc6
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 2/13]
>>> * remove extra kobject_put()
>>>
>>> * The patch was commented by Wen. Wen's comment is
>>> "acpi_memory_device_remove() should ignore a return value of
>>> remove_memory() since caller does not care the return value".
>>> But I did not change it since I think caller should care the
>>> return value. And I am trying to fix it as follow:
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/5/624
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 4/13]
>>> * remove a firmware_memmap_entry allocated by kzmalloc()
>>>
>>> change log of v2:
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 2/13]
>>> * check whether memory block is offline or not before calling
>>> offline_memory()
>>> * check whether section is valid or not in is_memblk_offline()
>>> * call kobject_put() for each memory_block in is_memblk_offline()
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 3/13]
>>> * unify the end argument of firmware_map_add_early/hotplug
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 4/13]
>>> * add release_firmware_map_entry() for freeing firmware_map_entry
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 6/13]
>>> * add release_memory_block() for freeing memory_block
>>>
>>> [RFC PATCH v2 11/13]
>>> * fix wrong arguments of free_pages()
>>>
>>>
>>> Wen Congyang (8):
>>> memory-hotplug: implement offline_memory()
>>> memory-hotplug: store the node id in acpi_memory_device
>>> memory-hotplug: export the function acpi_bus_remove()
>>> memory-hotplug: call acpi_bus_remove() to remove memory device
>>> memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory()
>>> memory-hotplug: remove sysfs file of node
>>> memory-hotplug: clear hwpoisoned flag when onlining pages
>>> memory-hotplug: auto offline page_cgroup when onlining memory block
>>> failed
>>>
>>> Yasuaki Ishimatsu (13):
>>> memory-hotplug: rename remove_memory() to
>>> offline_memory()/offline_pages()
>>> memory-hotplug: offline and remove memory when removing the memory
>>> device
>>> memory-hotplug: check whether memory is present or not
>>> memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs
>>> memory-hotplug: does not release memory region in PAGES_PER_SECTION
>>> chunks
>>> memory-hotplug: add memory_block_release
>>> memory-hotplug: remove_memory calls __remove_pages
>>> memory-hotplug: check page type in get_page_bootmem
>>> memory-hotplug: move register_page_bootmem_info_node and
>>> put_page_bootmem for sparse-vmemmap
>>> memory-hotplug: implement register_page_bootmem_info_section of
>>> sparse-vmemmap
>>> memory-hotplug: free memmap of sparse-vmemmap
>>> memory_hotplug: clear zone when the memory is removed
>>> memory-hotplug: add node_device_release
>>>
>>> arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 14 +
>>> arch/ia64/mm/init.c | 16 +
>>> arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 14 +
>>> arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 14 +
>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 16 +-
>>> arch/s390/mm/init.c | 12 +
>>> arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 14 +
>>> arch/sh/mm/init.c | 15 +
>>> arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 14 +
>>> arch/tile/mm/init.c | 8 +
>>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 1 +
>>> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 10 +
>>> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 331
>>> ++++++++++++++++++
>>> arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 47 ++--
>>> drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c | 54 +++-
>>> drivers/acpi/scan.c | 3 +-
>>> drivers/base/memory.c | 88 ++++-
>>> drivers/base/node.c | 11 +
>>> drivers/firmware/memmap.c | 98 +++++-
>>> include/acpi/acpi_bus.h | 1 +
>>> include/linux/firmware-map.h | 6 +
>>> include/linux/memory.h | 5 +
>>> include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 25 +-
>>> include/linux/mm.h | 5 +-
>>> include/linux/mmzone.h | 19 +
>>> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 424
>>> +++++++++++++++++++++--
>>> mm/page_cgroup.c | 3 +
>>> mm/sparse.c | 5 +-
>>> 28 files changed, 1181 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>>>
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