[PATCH v9 6/8] mm,memory_hotplug: Add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory

Oscar Salvador
2021-04-16T11:24:41Z

Self stored memmap leads to a sparse memory situation which is unsuitable
for workloads that requires large contiguous memory chunks, so make this
an opt-in which needs to be explicitly enabled.

To control this, let memory_hotplug have its own memory space, as suggested
by David, so we can add memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
mm/Makefile | 5 ++++-
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 10 +++++++++-
3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 04545725f187..af32c17cd4eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2794,6 +2794,23 @@
seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.

+ memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory
+ [KNL,X86,ARM] Boolean flag to enable this feature.
+ Format: {on | off (default)}
+ When enabled, runtime hotplugged memory will
+ allocate its internal metadata (struct pages)
+ from the hotadded memory which will allow to
+ hotadd a lot of memory without requiring
+ additional memory to do so.
+ This feature is disabled by default because it
+ has some implication on large (e.g. GB)
+ allocations in some configurations (e.g. small
+ memory blocks).
+ The state of the flag can be read in
+ /sys/module/memory_hotplug/parameters/memmap_on_memory.
+ Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
+ the feature is not effective.
+
memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index 72227b24a616..82ae9482f5e3 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -58,9 +58,13 @@ obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
page-alloc-y := page_alloc.o
page-alloc-$(CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR) += shuffle.o

+# Give 'memory_hotplug' its own module-parameter namespace
+memory-hotplug-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
+
obj-y += page-alloc.o
obj-y += init-mm.o
obj-y += memblock.o
+obj-y += $(memory-hotplug-y)

ifdef CONFIG_MMU
obj-$(CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS) += madvise.o
@@ -83,7 +87,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SLUB) += slub.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KASAN) += kasan/
obj-$(CONFIG_KFENCE) += kfence/
obj-$(CONFIG_FAILSLAB) += failslab.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG) += memory_hotplug.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MEMTEST) += memtest.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MIGRATION) += migrate.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) += huge_memory.o khugepaged.o
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 5ef626926449..b93949a84d4a 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -42,7 +42,15 @@
#include "internal.h"
#include "shuffle.h"

-static bool memmap_on_memory;
+
+/*
+ * memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory parameter
+ */
+static bool memmap_on_memory __ro_after_init;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY
+module_param(memmap_on_memory, bool, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(memmap_on_memory, "Enable memmap on memory for memory hotplug");
+#endif

/*
* online_page_callback contains pointer to current page onlining function.
--
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