linux/mm/sparse.c, branch v5.3

mm/sparsemem: cleanup 'section number' data types

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

David points out that there is a mixture of 'int' and 'unsigned long' usage for section number data types. Update the memory hotplug path to use 'unsigned long' consistently for section numbers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk format] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156107543656.1329419.11505835211949439815.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reported-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

The libnvdimm sub-system has suffered a series of hacks and broken workarounds for the memory-hotplug implementation's awkward section-aligned (128MB) granularity. For example the following backtrace is emitted when attempting arch_add_memory() with physical address ranges that intersect 'System RAM' (RAM) with 'Persistent Memory' (PMEM) within a given section: # cat /proc/iomem | grep -A1 -B1 Persistent\ Memory 100000000-1ffffffff : System RAM 200000000-303ffffff : Persistent Memory (legacy) 304000000-43fffffff : System RAM 440000000-23ffffffff : Persistent Memory 2400000000-43bfffffff : Persistent Memory 2400000000-43bfffffff : namespace2.0 WARNING: CPU: 38 PID: 928 at arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:850 add_pages+0x5c/0x60 [..] RIP: 0010:add_pages+0x5c/0x60 [..] Call Trace: devm_memremap_pages+0x460/0x6e0 pmem_attach_disk+0x29e/0x680 [nd_pmem] ? nd_dax_probe+0xfc/0x120 [libnvdimm] nvdimm_bus_probe+0x66/0x160 [libnvdimm] It was discovered that the problem goes beyond RAM vs PMEM collisions as some platform produce PMEM vs PMEM collisions within a given section. The libnvdimm workaround for that case revealed that the libnvdimm section-alignment-padding implementation has been broken for a long while. A fix for that long-standing breakage introduces as many problems as it solves as it would require a backward-incompatible change to the namespace metadata interpretation. Instead of that dubious route [1], address the root problem in the memory-hotplug implementation. Note that EEXIST is no longer treated as success as that is how sparse_add_section() reports subsection collisions, it was also obviated by recent changes to perform the request_region() for 'System RAM' before arch_add_memory() in the add_memory() sequence. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/155000671719.348031.2347363160141119237.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [osalvador@suse.de: fix deactivate_section for early sections] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190715081549.32577-2-osalvador@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092354368.979959.6232443923440952359.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: prepare for sub-section ranges

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

Prepare the memory hot-{add,remove} paths for handling sub-section ranges by plumbing the starting page frame and number of pages being handled through arch_{add,remove}_memory() to sparse_{add,remove}_one_section(). This is simply plumbing, small cleanups, and some identifier renames. No intended functional changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092353780.979959.9713046515562743194.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to populate_section_memmap()

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

Allow sub-section sized ranges to be added to the memmap. populate_section_memmap() takes an explict pfn range rather than assuming a full section, and those parameters are plumbed all the way through to vmmemap_populate(). There should be no sub-section usage in current deployments. New warnings are added to clarify which memmap allocation paths are sub-section capable. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092352058.979959.6551283472062305149.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: add helpers track active portions of a section at boot

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

Prepare for hot{plug,remove} of sub-ranges of a section by tracking a sub-section active bitmask, each bit representing a PMD_SIZE span of the architecture's memory hotplug section size. The implications of a partially populated section is that pfn_valid() needs to go beyond a valid_section() check and either determine that the section is an "early section", or read the sub-section active ranges from the bitmask. The expectation is that the bitmask (subsection_map) fits in the same cacheline as the valid_section() / early_section() data, so the incremental performance overhead to pfn_valid() should be negligible. The rationale for using early_section() to short-ciruit the subsection_map check is that there are legacy code paths that use pfn_valid() at section granularity before validating the pfn against pgdat data. So, the early_section() check allows those traditional assumptions to persist while also permitting subsection_map to tell the truth for purposes of populating the unused portions of early sections with PMEM and other ZONE_DEVICE mappings. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092350874.979959.18185938451405518285.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reported-by: Qian Cai Tested-by: Jane Chu Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: introduce a SECTION_IS_EARLY flag

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

In preparation for sub-section hotplug, track whether a given section was created during early memory initialization, or later via memory hotplug. This distinction is needed to maintain the coarse expectation that pfn_valid() returns true for any pfn within a given section even if that section has pages that are reserved from the page allocator. For example one of the of goals of subsection hotplug is to support cases where the system physical memory layout collides System RAM and PMEM within a section. Several pfn_valid() users expect to just check if a section is valid, but they are not careful to check if the given pfn is within a "System RAM" boundary and instead expect pgdat information to further validate the pfn. Rather than unwind those paths to make their pfn_valid() queries more precise a follow on patch uses the SECTION_IS_EARLY flag to maintain the traditional expectation that pfn_valid() returns true for all early sections. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1560366952-10660-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw/ Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092350358.979959.5817209875548072819.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reported-by: Qian Cai Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparsemem: introduce struct mem_section_usage

2019-07-19T00:08:07Z

Patch series "mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support", v10. The memory hotplug section is an arbitrary / convenient unit for memory hotplug. 'Section-size' units have bled into the user interface ('memblock' sysfs) and can not be changed without breaking existing userspace. The section-size constraint, while mostly benign for typical memory hotplug, has and continues to wreak havoc with 'device-memory' use cases, persistent memory (pmem) in particular. Recall that pmem uses devm_memremap_pages(), and subsequently arch_add_memory(), to allocate a 'struct page' memmap for pmem. However, it does not use the 'bottom half' of memory hotplug, i.e. never marks pmem pages online and never exposes the userspace memblock interface for pmem. This leaves an opening to redress the section-size constraint. To date, the libnvdimm subsystem has attempted to inject padding to satisfy the internal constraints of arch_add_memory(). Beyond complicating the code, leading to bugs [2], wasting memory, and limiting configuration flexibility, the padding hack is broken when the platform changes this physical memory alignment of pmem from one boot to the next. Device failure (intermittent or permanent) and physical reconfiguration are events that can cause the platform firmware to change the physical placement of pmem on a subsequent boot, and device failure is an everyday event in a data-center. It turns out that sections are only a hard requirement of the user-facing interface for memory hotplug and with a bit more infrastructure sub-section arch_add_memory() support can be added for kernel internal usages like devm_memremap_pages(). Here is an analysis of the current design assumptions in the current code and how they are addressed in the new implementation: Current design assumptions: - Sections that describe boot memory (early sections) are never unplugged / removed. - pfn_valid(), in the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y, case devolves to a valid_section() check - __add_pages() and helper routines assume all operations occur in PAGES_PER_SECTION units. - The memblock sysfs interface only comprehends full sections New design assumptions: - Sections are instrumented with a sub-section bitmask to track (on x86) individual 2MB sub-divisions of a 128MB section. - Partially populated early sections can be extended with additional sub-sections, and those sub-sections can be removed with arch_remove_memory(). With this in place we no longer lose usable memory capacity to padding. - pfn_valid() is updated to look deeper than valid_section() to also check the active-sub-section mask. This indication is in the same cacheline as the valid_section() so the performance impact is expected to be negligible. So far the lkp robot has not reported any regressions. - Outside of the core vmemmap population routines which are replaced, other helper routines like shrink_{zone,pgdat}_span() are updated to handle the smaller granularity. Core memory hotplug routines that deal with online memory are not touched. - The existing memblock sysfs user api guarantees / assumptions are not touched since this capability is limited to !online !memblock-sysfs-accessible sections. Meanwhile the issue reports continue to roll in from users that do not understand when and how the 128MB constraint will bite them. The current implementation relied on being able to support at least one misaligned namespace, but that immediately falls over on any moderately complex namespace creation attempt. Beyond the initial problem of 'System RAM' colliding with pmem, and the unsolvable problem of physical alignment changes, Linux is now being exposed to platforms that collide pmem ranges with other pmem ranges by default [3]. In short, devm_memremap_pages() has pushed the venerable section-size constraint past the breaking point, and the simplicity of section-aligned arch_add_memory() is no longer tenable. These patches are exposed to the kbuild robot on a subsection-v10 branch [4], and a preview of the unit test for this functionality is available on the 'subsection-pending' branch of ndctl [5]. [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/155000671719.348031.2347363160141119237.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com [3]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/issues/76 [4]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/log/?h=subsection-v10 [5]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl/commit/7c59b4867e1c This patch (of 13): Towards enabling memory hotplug to track partial population of a section, introduce 'struct mem_section_usage'. A pointer to a 'struct mem_section_usage' instance replaces the existing pointer to a 'pageblock_flags' bitmap. Effectively it adds one more 'unsigned long' beyond the 'pageblock_flags' (usemap) allocation to house a new 'subsection_map' bitmap. The new bitmap enables the memory hot{plug,remove} implementation to act on incremental sub-divisions of a section. SUBSECTION_SHIFT is defined as global constant instead of per-architecture value like SECTION_SIZE_BITS in order to allow cross-arch compatibility of subsection users. Specifically a common subsection size allows for the possibility that persistent memory namespace configurations be made compatible across architectures. The primary motivation for this functionality is to support platforms that mix "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" within a single section, or multiple PMEM ranges with different mapping lifetimes within a single section. The section restriction for hotplug has caused an ongoing saga of hacks and bugs for devm_memremap_pages() users. Beyond the fixups to teach existing paths how to retrieve the 'usemap' from a section, and updates to usemap allocation path, there are no expected behavior changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092349845.979959.73333291612799019.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [ppc64] Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jérôme Glisse Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Jane Chu Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Qian Cai Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: section numbers use the type "unsigned long"

2019-07-19T00:08:06Z

Patch series "mm: Further memory block device cleanups", v1. Some further cleanups around memory block devices. Especially, clean up and simplify walk_memory_range(). Including some other minor cleanups. This patch (of 6): We are using a mixture of "int" and "unsigned long". Let's make this consistent by using "unsigned long" everywhere. We'll do the same with memory block ids next. While at it, turn the "unsigned long i" in removable_show() into an int - sections_per_block is an int. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/unsigned long i/unsigned long nr/] [david@redhat.com: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190620183139.4352-2-david@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190614100114.311-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Arun KS Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/sparse.c: set section nid for hot-add memory

2019-07-19T00:08:06Z

In case of NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is set, we store section's node id in section_to_node_table[]. While for hot-add memory, this is missed. Without this information, page_to_nid() may not give the right node id. BTW, current online_pages works because it leverages nid in memory_block. But the granularity of node id should be mem_section wide. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190618005537.18878-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory_hotplug: remove "zone" parameter from sparse_remove_one_section

2019-07-19T00:08:06Z

The parameter is unused, so let's drop it. Memory removal paths should never care about zones. This is the job of memory offlining and will require more refactorings. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527111152.16324-12-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Wei Yang Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Andrew Banman Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Arun KS Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chintan Pandya Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Cameron Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Jun Yao Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Logan Gunthorpe Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Mathieu Malaterre Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: "mike.travis@hpe.com" Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Pavel Tatashin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Qian Cai Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Robin Murphy Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Yu Zhao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds