Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Create __shrink_pages and move it to offline_pages

[Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 04:58:49PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:58:21PM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > I agree, i never thought about that before. Looking at existing resource
> > management i think the simplest solution would be to use a refcount on the
> > resources instead of the IORESOURCE_BUSY flags.
> > 
> > So when you release resource as part of hotremove you would only dec the
> > refcount and a resource is not busy only when refcount is zero.
> > 
> > Just the idea i had in mind. Right now i am working on other thing, Oscar
> > is this something you would like to work on ? Feel free to come up with
> > something better than my first idea :)
> 
> So, I thought a bit about this.
> First I talked a bit with Jerome about the refcount idea.
> The problem with reconverting this to refcount is that it is too intrusive,
> and I think it is not really needed.
> 
> I then thought about defining a new flag, something like
> 
> #define IORESOURCE_NO_HOTREMOVE	xxx
> 
> but we ran out of bits for the flag field.
> 
> I then thought about doing something like:
> 
> struct resource {
>         resource_size_t start;
>         resource_size_t end;
>         const char *name;
>         unsigned long flags;
>         unsigned long desc;
>         struct resource *parent, *sibling, *child;
> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>         bool device_managed;
> #endif
> };
> 
> but it is just too awful, not needed, and bytes consuming.

Agree the above is ugly.

> 
> The only idea I had left is:
> 
> register_memory_resource(), which defines a new resource for the added memory-chunk
> is only called from add_memory().
> This function is only being hit when we add memory-chunks.
> 
> HMM/devm gets the resources their own way, calling devm_request_mem_region().
> 
> So resources that are requested from HMM/devm, have the following flags:
> 
>  (IORESOURCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_BUSY)
> 
> while resources that are requested via mem-hotplug have:
> 
>  (IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM | IORESOURCE_BUSY)
> 
> IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM = (IORESOURCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_SYSRAM)
> 
> 
> release_mem_region_adjustable() is only being called from hot-remove path, so
> unless I am mistaken, all resources hitting that path should match IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM.
> 
> That leaves me with the idea that we could check for the resource->flags to contain IORESOURCE_SYSRAM,
> as I think it is only being set for memory-chunks that are added via memory-hot-add path.
> 
> In case it is not, we know that that resource belongs to HMM/devm, so we can back off since
> they take care of releasing the resource via devm_release_mem_region.
> 
> I am working on a RFC v2 containing this, but, Jerome, could you confirm above assumption, please?

I think you nail it. I am not 100% sure about devm as i have not
followed closely how persistent memory can be reported by ACPI. But
i am pretty sure it should never end up as SYSRAM.

Thank you for scratching your head on this :)

Cheers,
Jerome