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Tsirkin" , Mike Kravetz , Mike Rapoport , Pankaj Gupta , Baoquan He Subject: [PATCH v5 6/6] mm: document semantics of ZONE_MOVABLE Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 14:53:33 +0200 Message-Id: <20200816125333.7434-7-david@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20200816125333.7434-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20200816125333.7434-1-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3D1CA1803F9A8 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 100.00] X-Rspamd-Server: rspam01 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Let's document what ZONE_MOVABLE means, how it's used, and which special cases we have regarding unmovable pages (memory offlining vs. migration / allocations). Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Pankaj Gupta Cc: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index f6f884970511d..2456fcbaba152 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -372,6 +372,41 @@ enum zone_type { */ ZONE_HIGHMEM, #endif + /* + * ZONE_MOVABLE is similar to ZONE_NORMAL, except that it contains + * movable pages with few exceptional cases described below. Main use + * cases for ZONE_MOVABLE are to make memory offlining/unplug more + * likely to succeed, and to locally limit unmovable allocations - e.g.= , + * to increase the number of THP/huge pages. Notable special cases are: + * + * 1. Pinned pages: (long-term) pinning of movable pages might + * essentially turn such pages unmovable. Memory offlining might + * retry a long time. + * 2. memblock allocations: kernelcore/movablecore setups might create + * situations where ZONE_MOVABLE contains unmovable allocations + * after boot. Memory offlining and allocations fail early. + * 3. Memory holes: kernelcore/movablecore setups might create very rar= e + * situations where ZONE_MOVABLE contains memory holes after boot, + * for example, if we have sections that are only partially + * populated. Memory offlining and allocations fail early. + * 4. PG_hwpoison pages: while poisoned pages can be skipped during + * memory offlining, such pages cannot be allocated. + * 5. Unmovable PG_offline pages: in paravirtualized environments, + * hotplugged memory blocks might only partially be managed by the + * buddy (e.g., via XEN-balloon, Hyper-V balloon, virtio-mem). The + * parts not manged by the buddy are unmovable PG_offline pages. In + * some cases (virtio-mem), such pages can be skipped during + * memory offlining, however, cannot be moved/allocated. These + * techniques might use alloc_contig_range() to hide previously + * exposed pages from the buddy again (e.g., to implement some sort + * of memory unplug in virtio-mem). + * + * In general, no unmovable allocations that degrade memory offlining + * should end up in ZONE_MOVABLE. Allocators (like alloc_contig_range()= ) + * have to expect that migrating pages in ZONE_MOVABLE can fail (even + * if has_unmovable_pages() states that there are no unmovable pages, + * there can be false negatives). + */ ZONE_MOVABLE, #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE ZONE_DEVICE, --=20 2.26.2