[PATCH v2 0/7] virtio-mem: s390 support

David Hildenbrand
2024-10-14T14:46:37Z

Let's finally add s390 support for virtio-mem; my last RFC was sent
4 years ago, and a lot changed in the meantime.

The latest QEMU series is available at [1], which contains some more
details and a usage example on s390 (last patch).

There is not too much in here: The biggest part is querying a new diag(500)
STORAGE_LIMIT hypercall to obtain the proper "max_physmem_end".

The last two patches are not strictly required but certainly nice-to-have.

Note that -- in contrast to standby memory -- virtio-mem memory must be
configured to be automatically onlined as soon as hotplugged. The easiest
approach is using the "memhp_default_state=" kernel parameter or by using
proper udev rules. More details can be found at [2].

I have reviving+upstreaming a systemd service to handle configuring
that on my todo list, but for some reason I keep getting distracted ...

I tested various things, including:
* Various memory hotplug/hotunplug combinations
* Device hotplug/hotunplug
* /proc/iomem output
* reboot
* kexec
* kdump: make sure we don't hotplug memory

One remaining work item is kdump support for virtio-mem memory. This will
be sent out separately once initial support landed.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241008105455.2302628-1-david@redhat.com
[2] https://virtio-mem.gitlab.io/user-guide/user-guide-linux.html

v1 -> v2:
* Document the new diag500 subfunction
* Use "s390" instead of "s390x" consistently

Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

David Hildenbrand (7):
s390/kdump: implement is_kdump_kernel()
Documentation: s390-diag.rst: make diag500 a generic KVM hypercall
Documentation: s390-diag.rst: document diag500(STORAGE LIMIT)
subfunction
s390/physmem_info: query diag500(STORAGE LIMIT) to support QEMU/KVM
memory devices
virtio-mem: s390 support
lib/Kconfig.debug: default STRICT_DEVMEM to "y" on s390
s390/sparsemem: reduce section size to 128 MiB

Documentation/virt/kvm/s390/s390-diag.rst | 32 ++++++++++++----
arch/s390/boot/physmem_info.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++--
arch/s390/include/asm/kexec.h | 4 ++
arch/s390/include/asm/physmem_info.h | 3 ++
arch/s390/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 2 +-
arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c | 6 +++
drivers/virtio/Kconfig | 12 +++---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
8 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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