[PATCH v6 2/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow memmap on memory hotplug request to fallback

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jul 27 18:02:27 AEST 2023


If not supported, fallback to not using memap on memmory. This avoids
the need for callers to do the fallback.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c |  3 +--
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |  3 ++-
 mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 13 ++++++-------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
index 24f662d8bd39..d0c1a71007d0 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
@@ -211,8 +211,7 @@ static int acpi_memory_enable_device(struct acpi_memory_device *mem_device)
 		if (!info->length)
 			continue;
 
-		if (mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(info->length))
-			mhp_flags |= MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY;
+		mhp_flags |= MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY;
 		result = __add_memory(mgid, info->start_addr, info->length,
 				      mhp_flags);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 013c69753c91..7d2076583494 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ typedef int __bitwise mhp_t;
  * To do so, we will use the beginning of the hot-added range to build
  * the page tables for the memmap array that describes the entire range.
  * Only selected architectures support it with SPARSE_VMEMMAP.
+ * This is only a hint, the core kernel can decide to not do this based on
+ * different alignment checks.
  */
 #define MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY   ((__force mhp_t)BIT(1))
 /*
@@ -354,7 +356,6 @@ extern struct zone *zone_for_pfn_range(int online_type, int nid,
 extern int arch_create_linear_mapping(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
 				      struct mhp_params *params);
 void arch_remove_linear_mapping(u64 start, u64 size);
-extern bool mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long size);
 #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H */
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 7cfd13c91568..eca32ccd45cc 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ static int online_memory_block(struct memory_block *mem, void *arg)
 	return device_online(&mem->dev);
 }
 
-bool mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long size)
+static bool mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long size)
 {
 	unsigned long nr_vmemmap_pages = size / PAGE_SIZE;
 	unsigned long vmemmap_size = nr_vmemmap_pages * sizeof(struct page);
@@ -1339,13 +1339,12 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res, mhp_t mhp_flags)
 	 * Self hosted memmap array
 	 */
 	if (mhp_flags & MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY) {
-		if (!mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(size)) {
-			ret = -EINVAL;
-			goto error;
+		if (mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(size)) {
+			mhp_altmap.free = PHYS_PFN(size);
+			mhp_altmap.base_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start);
+			params.altmap = &mhp_altmap;
 		}
-		mhp_altmap.free = PHYS_PFN(size);
-		mhp_altmap.base_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start);
-		params.altmap = &mhp_altmap;
+		/* fallback to not using altmap  */
 	}
 
 	/* call arch's memory hotadd */
-- 
2.41.0



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