mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory
Add online_movable and online_kernel for logic memory hotplug. This is
the dynamic version of "movablecore" & "kernelcore".
We have the same reason to introduce it as to introduce "movablecore" &
"kernelcore". It has the same motive as "movablecore" & "kernelcore", but
it is dynamic/running-time:
o We can configure memory as kernelcore or movablecore after boot.
Userspace workload is increased, we need more hugepage, we can't use
"online_movable" to add memory and allow the system use more
THP(transparent-huge-page), vice-verse when kernel workload is increase.
Also help for virtualization to dynamic configure host/guest's memory,
to save/(reduce waste) memory.
Memory capacity on Demand
o When a new node is physically online after boot, we need to use
"online_movable" or "online_kernel" to configure/portion it as we
expected when we logic-online it.
This configuration also helps for physically-memory-migrate.
o all benefit as the same as existed "movablecore" & "kernelcore".
o Preparing for movable-node, which is very important for power-saving,
hardware partitioning and high-available-system(hardware fault
management).
(Note, we don't introduce movable-node here.)
Action behavior:
When a memoryblock/memorysection is onlined by "online_movable", the kernel
will not have directly reference to the page of the memoryblock,
thus we can remove that memory any time when needed.
When it is online by "online_kernel", the kernel can use it.
When it is online by "online", the zone type doesn't changed.
Current constraints:
Only the memoryblock which is adjacent to the ZONE_MOVABLE
can be online from ZONE_NORMAL to ZONE_MOVABLE.
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Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 6e6cbc7..c6f993d 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@
in the memory block.
'state' : read-write
at read: contains online/offline state of memory.
- at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command
+ at write: user can specify "online_kernel",
+ "online_movable", "online", "offline" command
which will be performed on al sections in the block.
'phys_device' : read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory
device. This is not well implemented now.
@@ -255,6 +256,17 @@
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+This onlining will not change the ZONE type of the target memory section,
+If the memory section is in ZONE_NORMAL, you can change it to ZONE_MOVABLE:
+
+% echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE)
+
+And if the memory section is in ZONE_MOVABLE, you can change it to ZONE_NORMAL:
+
+% echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL)
+
After this, section memoryXXX's state will be 'online' and the amount of
available memory will be increased.
