[FIX,v2,2/2] powerpc,numa: Fix memory_hotplug_max()

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jun 21 10:40:49 AEST 2016


On Thu, 2016-12-05 at 13:34:15 UTC, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> memory_hotplug_max() uses hot_add_drconf_memory_max() to get maxmimum
> addressable memory by referring to ibm,dyanamic-memory property. There
> are three problems with the current approach:
> 
> 1 hot_add_drconf_memory_max() assumes that ibm,dynamic-memory includes
>   all the LMBs of the guest, but that is not true for PowerKVM which
>   populates only DR LMBs (LMBs that can be hotplugged/removed) in that
>   property.
> 2 hot_add_drconf_memory_max() multiplies lmb-size with lmb-count to arrive
>   at the max possible address. Since ibm,dynamic-memory doesn't include
>   RMA LMBs, the address thus obtained will be less than the actual max
>   address. For example, if max possible memory size is 32G, with lmb-size
>   of 256MB there can be 127 LMBs in ibm,dynamic-memory (1 LMB for RMA
>   which won't be present here).  hot_add_drconf_memory_max() would then
>   return the max addressable memory as 127 * 256MB = 31.75GB, the max
>   address should have been 32G which is what ibm,lrdr-capacity shows.
> 3 In PowerKVM, there can be a gap between the end of boot time RAM and
>   beginning of hotplug RAM area. So just multiplying lmb-count with
>   lmb-size will not provide the correct max possible address for PowerKVM.
> 
> This patch fixes 1 by using ibm,lrdr-capacity property to return the max
> addressable memory whenever the property is present. Then it fixes 2 & 3
> by fetching the address of the last LMB in ibm,dynamic-memory property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/45b64ee64970dee9392229302e

cheers


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