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

[Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 03:42:33PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 10:08:41AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Then it is maybe time to cleary distinguish both types of memory, as
> > they are fundamentally different when it comes to online/offline behavior.
> > 
> > Ordinary ram:
> >  add_memory ...
> >  online_pages ...
> >  offline_pages
> >  remove_memory
> > 
> > Device memory
> >  add_device_memory ...
> >  remove_device_memory
> > 
> > So adding/removing from the zone and stuff can be handled there.
> 
> Uhm, I have been thinking about this.
> Maybe we could do something like (completely untested):
> 
> 
> == memory_hotplug code ==
> 
> int add_device_memory(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
>                                 struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool mapping)
> {
>         int ret;
>         unsigned long start_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start);
>         unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> 
>         mem_hotplug_begin();
>         if (mapping)
>                 ret = arch_add_memory(nid, start, size, altmap, false)
>         else
>                 ret = add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, altmap, false):
> 
>         if (!ret) {
>                 pgdata_t *pgdata = NODE_DATA(nid);
>                 struct zone *zone = pgdata->node_zones[ZONE_DEVICE];
> 
>                 online_mem_sections(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);
>                 move_pfn_range_to_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages, altmap);
>         }
>         mem_hotplug_done();
> 
>         return ret;
> }
> 
> int del_device_memory(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
>                                 struct vmem_altmap *altmap, bool mapping)
> {
>         int ret;
>         unsigned long start_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start);
>         unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>         pgdata_t *pgdata = NODE_DATA(nid);
>         struct zone *zone = pgdata->node_zones[ZONE_DEVICE];
> 
>         mem_hotplug_begin();
> 
>         offline_mem_sections(start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);
>         __shrink_pages(zone, start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages, nr_pages);
> 
>         if (mapping)
>                 ret = arch_remove_memory(nid, start, size, altmap)
>         else
>                 ret = __remove_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, altmap)
> 
>         mem_hotplug_done();
> 
>         return ret;
> }
> 
> ===
> 
> And then, HMM/devm code could use it.
> 
> For example:
> 
> hmm_devmem_pages_create():
> 
> ...
> ...
> if (devmem->pagemap.type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PUBLIC)
> 	linear_mapping = true;
> else
> 	linear_mapping = false;
> 
> ret = add_device_memory(nid, align_start, align_size, NULL, linear_mapping);
> if (ret)
> 	goto error_add_memory;
> ...
> ...
> 
> 
> hmm_devmem_release:
> 
> ...
> ...
> if (resource->desc == IORES_DESC_DEVICE_PRIVATE_MEMORY)
> 	mapping = false;
> else
> 	mapping = true;
> 
> del_device_memory(nid, start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, npages << PAGE_SHIFT,
> 								NULL,
> 								mapping);
> ...
> ...
> 
> 
> In this way, we do not need to play tricks in HMM/devm code, we just need to
> call those functions when adding/removing memory.

Note that Dan did post patches that already go in that direction (unifying
code between devm and HMM). I think they are in Andrew queue, looks for

mm: Rework hmm to use devm_memremap_pages and other fixes

> 
> We would still have to figure out a way to go for the release_mem_region_adjustable() stuff though.

Yes.

Cheers,
Jerome