[PATCH v2 0/7] memory-hotplug: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE

[Wang Nan]

This series of patches fix 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

v1 -> v2:
 - introduce zone_for_memory() to arch independent code to make arch
   dependent code simpler, following Dave Hansen's comments.
 - Paste free and zoneinfo result in patch 0 as a response to
   Zhang Yanfei.
 - Fix a problem in tile to add memory into ZONE_HIGHMEM by default.

Wang Nan (7):
  memory-hotplug: add zone_for_memory() for selecting zone for new
    memory
  memory-hotplug: x86_64: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE
  memory-hotplug: x86_32: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE
  memory-hotplug: ia64: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE
  memory-hotplug: ppc: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE
  memory-hotplug: sh: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE
  memory-hotplug: tile: suitable memory should go to ZONE_MOVABLE

 arch/ia64/mm/init.c            |  3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c          |  3 ++-
 arch/sh/mm/init.c              |  5 +++--
 arch/tile/mm/init.c            |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/mm/init_32.c          |  3 ++-
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c          |  3 ++-
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  1 +
 mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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