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* [PATCH v1 00/12] Arrange hotpluggable memory in SRAT as ZONE_MOVABLE.
@ 2013-04-19  9:31 Tang Chen
  2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 01/12] x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node Tang Chen
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  0 siblings, 12 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Tang Chen @ 2013-04-19  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rob, tglx, mingo, hpa, akpm, paulmck, dhowells, davej, agordeev,
	suresh.b.siddha, mst, yinghai, penberg, jacob.shin, wency, trenn,
	liwanp, isimatu.yasuaki, rientjes, tj, laijs, hannes, davem,
	mgorman, minchan, m.szyprowski, mina86
  Cc: x86, linux-doc, linux-kernel, linux-mm

In memory hotplug situation, the hotpluggable memory should be
arranged in ZONE_MOVABLE because memory in ZONE_NORMAL may be
used by kernel, and Linux cannot migrate pages used by kernel.

So we need a way to specify hotpluggable memory as movable. It
should be as easy as possible.

According to ACPI spec 5.0, SRAT table has memory affinity
structure and the structure has Hot Pluggable Filed. 
See "5.2.16.2 Memory Affinity Structure".

If we use the information, we might be able to specify hotpluggable
memory by firmware. For example, if Hot Pluggable Filed is enabled,
kernel sets the memory as movable memory.

To achieve this goal, we need to do the following:
1. Prevent memblock from allocating hotpluggable memroy for kernel.
   This is done by reserving hotpluggable memory in memblock as the
   folowing steps:
   1) Parse SRAT early enough so that memblock knows which memory
      is hotpluggable.
   2) Add a "flags" member to memblock so that it is able to tell
      which memory is hotpluggable when freeing it to buddy.

2. Free hotpluggable memory to buddy system when memory initialization
   is done.

3. Arrange hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE.
   (This will cause NUMA performance decreased)

4. Provide a user interface to enable/disable this functionality.
   (This is useful for those who don't use memory hotplug and who don't
    want to lose their NUMA performance.)


This patch-set does the following:
patch1:        Fix a little problem.
patch2:        Have Hot-Pluggable Field in SRAT printed when parsing SRAT.
patch4,5:      Introduce hotpluggable field to numa_meminfo.
patch6,7:      Introduce flags to memblock, and keep the public APIs prototype
               unmodified.
patch8:        Reserve node-life-cycle memory as MEMBLK_LOCAL_NODE with memblock.
patch9,10:     Reserve hotpluggable memory as MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE with memblock,
               and free it to buddy when memory initialization is done.
patch3,11,12:  Improve "movablecore" boot option to support "movablecore=acpi".


This patch-set is based on Yinghai's
"x86, ACPI, numa: Parse numa info early" patch-set.
Please refer to:
v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/7/642
v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/10/47
v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/4/639
v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/11/829

And Yinghai's patch did the following things:
1) Parse SRAT early enough.
2)Allocate pagetable pages in local node.


Tang Chen (11):
  acpi: Print Hot-Pluggable Field in SRAT.
  page_alloc, mem-hotplug: Improve movablecore to {en|dis}able using
    SRAT.
  x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Introduce hotplug info into struct
    numa_meminfo.
  x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Consider hotplug info when cleanup
    numa_meminfo.
  memblock, numa: Introduce flag into memblock.
  x86, numa, mem-hotplug: Mark nodes which the kernel resides in.
  x86, numa, memblock: Introduce MEMBLK_LOCAL_NODE to mark and reserve
    node-life-cycle data.
  x86, acpi, numa, mem-hotplug: Introduce MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE to mark
    and reserve hotpluggable memory.
  x86, memblock, mem-hotplug: Free hotpluggable memory reserved by
    memblock.
  x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Make movablecore=acpi have higher
    priority.
  doc, page_alloc, acpi, mem-hotplug: Add doc for movablecore=acpi boot
    option.

Yasuaki Ishimatsu (1):
  x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    8 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h         |    3 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/apic/numaq_32.c     |    2 +-
 arch/x86/mm/amdtopology.c           |    3 +-
 arch/x86/mm/init.c                  |   16 +++-
 arch/x86/mm/numa.c                  |   60 ++++++++++++++---
 arch/x86/mm/numa_internal.h         |    1 +
 arch/x86/mm/srat.c                  |   11 ++-
 include/linux/memblock.h            |   16 +++++
 include/linux/memory_hotplug.h      |    3 +
 mm/memblock.c                       |  127 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 mm/nobootmem.c                      |    3 +
 mm/page_alloc.c                     |   37 ++++++++++-
 13 files changed, 253 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)


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2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 02/12] acpi: Print Hot-Pluggable Field in SRAT Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 03/12] page_alloc, mem-hotplug: Improve movablecore to {en|dis}able using SRAT Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 04/12] x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Introduce hotplug info into struct numa_meminfo Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 05/12] x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Consider hotplug info when cleanup numa_meminfo Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 06/12] memblock, numa: Introduce flag into memblock Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 07/12] x86, numa, mem-hotplug: Mark nodes which the kernel resides in Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 08/12] x86, numa, memblock: Introduce MEMBLK_LOCAL_NODE to mark and reserve node-life-cycle data Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 09/12] x86, acpi, numa, mem-hotplug: Introduce MEMBLK_HOTPLUGGABLE to mark and reserve hotpluggable memory Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 10/12] x86, memblock, mem-hotplug: Free hotpluggable memory reserved by memblock Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 11/12] x86, numa, acpi, memory-hotplug: Make movablecore=acpi have higher priority Tang Chen
2013-04-19  9:31 ` [PATCH v1 12/12] doc, page_alloc, acpi, mem-hotplug: Add doc for movablecore=acpi boot option Tang Chen

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