linux/drivers/base/memory.c, branch v6.15

drivers/base/memory: Avoid overhead from for_each_present_section_nr()

2025-04-15T16:19:49Z

for_each_present_section_nr() was introduced to add_boot_memory_block() by commit 61659efdb35c ("drivers/base/memory: improve add_boot_memory_block()"). It causes unnecessary overhead when the present sections are really sparse. next_present_section_nr() called by the macro to find the next present section, which is far away from the spanning sections in the specified block. Too much time consumed by next_present_section_nr() in this case, which can lead to softlockup as observed by Aditya Gupta on IBM Power10 machine. watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#248 stuck for 22s! [swapper/248:1] Modules linked in: CPU: 248 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/248 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc1-next-20250408 #1 VOLUNTARY Hardware name: 9105-22A POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 opal:v7.1-107-gfda75d121942 PowerNV NIP: c00000000209218c LR: c000000002092204 CTR: 0000000000000000 REGS: c00040000418fa30 TRAP: 0900 Not tainted (6.15.0-rc1-next-20250408) MSR: 9000000002009033 CR: 28000428 XER: 00000000 CFAR: 0000000000000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c000000002092204 c00040000418fcd0 c000000001b08100 0000000000000040 GPR04: 0000000000013e00 c000c03ffebabb00 0000000000c03fff c000400fff587f80 GPR08: 0000000000000000 00000000001196f7 0000000000000000 0000000028000428 GPR12: 0000000000000000 c000000002e80000 c00000000001007c 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR28: c000000002df7f70 0000000000013dc0 c0000000011dd898 0000000008000000 NIP [c00000000209218c] memory_dev_init+0x114/0x1e0 LR [c000000002092204] memory_dev_init+0x18c/0x1e0 Call Trace: [c00040000418fcd0] [c000000002092204] memory_dev_init+0x18c/0x1e0 (unreliable) [c00040000418fd50] [c000000002091348] driver_init+0x78/0xa4 [c00040000418fd70] [c0000000020063ac] kernel_init_freeable+0x22c/0x370 [c00040000418fde0] [c0000000000100a8] kernel_init+0x34/0x25c [c00040000418fe50] [c00000000000cd94] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c Avoid the overhead by folding for_each_present_section_nr() to the outer loop. add_boot_memory_block() is dropped after that. Fixes: 61659efdb35c ("drivers/base/memory: improve add_boot_memory_block()") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250409180344.477916-1-adityag@linux.ibm.com Reported-by: Aditya Gupta Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Tested-by: Aditya Gupta Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410125110.1232329-1-gshan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/base/memory: improve add_boot_memory_block()

2025-03-18T05:07:01Z

Patch series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups", v3. Two cleanups to drivers/base/memory. This patch (of 2)L It's unnecessary to count the present sections for the specified block since the block will be added if any section in the block is present. Besides, for_each_present_section_nr() can be reused as Andrew Morton suggested. Improve by using for_each_present_section_nr() and dropping the unnecessary @section_count. No functional changes intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311233045.148943-1-gshan@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311233045.148943-2-gshan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

drivers/base/memory: simplify outputting of valid_zones_show()

2025-03-17T05:05:56Z

No need to specify position at the first writing to the buf because the @len is always 0 at this time. Use sysfs_emit() instead to simplify it. Also avoid setting/checking default_zone with a conditional operator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108015223.1522887-1-ruansy.fnst@fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Shiyang Ruan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: add build-time option for hotplug memory default online type

2025-01-26T04:22:21Z

Memory hotplug presently auto-onlines memory into a zone the kernel deems appropriate if CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE=y. The memhp_default_state boot param enables runtime config, but it's not possible to do this at build-time. Remove CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE, and replace it with CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_* choices that sync with the boot param. Selections: CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE => mhp_default_online_type = "offline" Memory will not be onlined automatically. CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO => mhp_default_online_type = "online" Memory will be onlined automatically in a zone deemed. appropriate by the kernel. CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_KERNEL => mhp_default_online_type = "online_kernel" Memory will be onlined automatically. The zone may allow kernel data (e.g. ZONE_NORMAL). CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_MOVABLE => mhp_default_online_type = "online_movable" Memory will be onlined automatically. The zone will be ZONE_MOVABLE. Default to CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_OFFLINE to match the existing default CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE=n behavior. Existing users of CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE=y should use CONFIG_MHP_DEFAULT_ONLINE_TYPE_ONLINE_AUTO. [gourry@gourry.net: update KConfig comments] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241226182918.648799-1-gourry@gourry.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220210709.300066-1-gourry@gourry.net Signed-off-by: Gregory Price Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: WANG Xuerui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

crash: add a new kexec flag for hotplug support

2024-04-23T04:59:01Z

Commit a72bbec70da2 ("crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()") introduced a new kexec flag, `KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR`. Kexec tool uses this flag to indicate to the kernel that it is safe to modify the elfcorehdr of the kdump image loaded using the kexec_load system call. However, it is possible that architectures may need to update kexec segments other then elfcorehdr. For example, FDT (Flatten Device Tree) on PowerPC. Introducing a new kexec flag for every new kexec segment may not be a good solution. Hence, a generic kexec flag bit, `KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT`, is introduced to share the CPU/Memory hotplug support intent between the kexec tool and the kernel for the kexec_load system call. Now we have two kexec flags that enables crash hotplug support for kexec_load system call. First is KEXEC_UPDATE_ELFCOREHDR (only used in x86), and second is KEXEC_CRASH_HOTPLUG_SUPPORT (for all architectures). To simplify the process of finding and reporting the crash hotplug support the following changes are introduced. 1. Define arch specific function to process the kexec flags and determine crash hotplug support 2. Rename the @update_elfcorehdr member of struct kimage to @hotplug_support and populate it for both kexec_load and kexec_file_load syscalls, because architecture can update more than one kexec segment 3. Let generic function crash_check_hotplug_support report hotplug support for loaded kdump image based on value of @hotplug_support To bring the x86 crash hotplug support in line with the above points, the following changes have been made: - Introduce the arch_crash_hotplug_support function to process kexec flags and determine crash hotplug support - Remove the arch_crash_hotplug_[cpu|memory]_support functions Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain Acked-by: Baoquan He Acked-by: Hari Bathini Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://msgid.link/20240326055413.186534-3-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com

mm/memory_hotplug: introduce MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE notifiers

2024-02-22T00:00:01Z

Patch series "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390". This series provides "memmap on memory" support on s390 platform. "memmap on memory" allows struct pages array to be allocated from the hotplugged memory range instead of allocating it from main system memory. s390 currently preallocates struct pages array for all potentially possible memory, which ensures memory onlining always succeeds, but with the cost of significant memory consumption from the available system memory during boottime. In certain extreme configuration, this could lead to ipl failure. "memmap on memory" ensures struct pages array are populated from self contained hotplugged memory range instead of depleting the available system memory and this could eliminate ipl failure on s390 platform. On other platforms, system might go OOM when the physically hotplugged memory depletes the available memory before it is onlined. Hence, "memmap on memory" feature was introduced as described in commit a08a2ae34613 ("mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range"). Unlike other architectures, s390 memory blocks are not physically accessible until it is online. To make it physically accessible two new memory notifiers MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE / MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE are added and this notifier lets the hypervisor inform that the memory should be made physically accessible. This allows for "memmap on memory" initialization during memory hotplug onlining phase, which is performed before calling MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier. Patch 1 introduces MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers to prepare the transition of memory to and from a physically accessible state. New mhp_flag MHP_OFFLINE_INACCESSIBLE is introduced to ensure altmap cannot be written when adding memory - before it is set online. This enhancement is crucial for implementing the "memmap on memory" feature for s390 in a subsequent patch. Patches 2 allocates vmemmap pages from self-contained memory range for s390. It allocates memory map (struct pages array) from the hotplugged memory range, rather than using system memory by passing altmap to vmemmap functions. Patch 3 removes unhandled memory notifier types on s390. Patch 4 implements MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers on s390. MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE memory notifier makes memory block physical accessible via sclp assign command. The notifier ensures self-contained memory maps are accessible and hence enabling the "memmap on memory" on s390. MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifier shifts the memory block to an inaccessible state via sclp unassign command. Patch 5 finally enables MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY on s390. This patch (of 5): Introduce MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers to prepare the transition of memory to and from a physically accessible state. This enhancement is crucial for implementing the "memmap on memory" feature for s390 in a subsequent patch. Platforms such as x86 can support physical memory hotplug via ACPI. When there is physical memory hotplug, ACPI event leads to the memory addition with the following callchain: acpi_memory_device_add() -> acpi_memory_enable_device() -> __add_memory() After this, the hotplugged memory is physically accessible, and altmap support prepared, before the "memmap on memory" initialization in memory_block_online() is called. On s390, memory hotplug works in a different way. The available hotplug memory has to be defined upfront in the hypervisor, but it is made physically accessible only when the user sets it online via sysfs, currently in the MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier. This is too late and "memmap on memory" initialization is performed before calling MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier. During the memory hotplug addition phase, altmap support is prepared and during the memory onlining phase s390 requires memory to be physically accessible and then subsequently initiate the "memmap on memory" initialization process. The memory provider will handle new MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE / MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE notifications and make the memory accessible. The mhp_flag MHP_OFFLINE_INACCESSIBLE is introduced and is relevant when used along with MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY, because the altmap cannot be written (e.g., poisoned) when adding memory -- before it is set online. This allows for adding memory with an altmap that is not currently made available by a hypervisor. When onlining that memory, the hypervisor can be instructed to make that memory accessible via the new notifiers and the onlining phase will not require any memory allocations, which is helpful in low-memory situations. All architectures ignore unknown memory notifiers. Therefore, the introduction of these new notifiers does not result in any functional modifications across architectures. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240108132747.3238763-1-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240108132747.3238763-2-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar Suggested-by: Gerald Schaefer Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2024-01-18T17:48:40Z

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1. Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will come back in a safer way next release cycle. Included in here are: - more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes - fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior - kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions - cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many systems that add topologies and cpus after booting - other minor changes and cleanups All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits) Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock" kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock class: fix use-after-free in class_register() PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage kernfs: fix reference to renamed function driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const driver core: container: make container_subsys const driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing... driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe() kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy() kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy() kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy() initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns() ...

driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const

2023-12-21T12:56:30Z

Now that the driver core can properly handle constant struct bus_type, change the local driver core bus_type variables to be a constant structure as well, placing them into read-only memory which can not be modified at runtime. Cc: Ira Weiny Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: Len Brown Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray Acked-by: Dave Ertman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2023121908-paver-follow-cc21@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/memory_hotplug: add missing mem_hotplug_lock

2023-12-07T00:12:46Z

From Documentation/core-api/memory-hotplug.rst: When adding/removing/onlining/offlining memory or adding/removing heterogeneous/device memory, we should always hold the mem_hotplug_lock in write mode to serialise memory hotplug (e.g. access to global/zone variables). mhp_(de)init_memmap_on_memory() functions can change zone stats and struct page content, but they are currently called w/o the mem_hotplug_lock. When memory block is being offlined and when kmemleak goes through each populated zone, the following theoretical race conditions could occur: CPU 0: | CPU 1: memory_offline() | -> offline_pages() | -> mem_hotplug_begin() | ... | -> mem_hotplug_done() | | kmemleak_scan() | -> get_online_mems() | ... -> mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory() | [not protected by mem_hotplug_begin/done()]| Marks memory section as offline, | Retrieves zone_start_pfn poisons vmemmap struct pages and updates | and struct page members. the zone related data | | ... | -> put_online_mems() Fix this by ensuring mem_hotplug_lock is taken before performing mhp_init_memmap_on_memory(). Also ensure that mhp_deinit_memmap_on_memory() holds the lock. online/offline_pages() are currently only called from memory_block_online/offline(), so it is safe to move the locking there. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231120145354.308999-2-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com Fixes: a08a2ae34613 ("mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range") Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: kernel test robot Cc: [5.15+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-08-29T21:53:51Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder ("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options") - kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h") - gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper commands") - vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko ("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions") - Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory hot un/plug") - Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits) document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread() drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array x86/crash: optimize CPU changes crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu() crash: hotplug support for kexec_load() x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug kstrtox: consistently use _tolower() kill do_each_thread() nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED lockdep: fix static memory detection even more lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition ...