tree 87d25252816ed44cb0a6bd6232b139b980cd7197
parent 848e19ad3c3352b6e0906f05b282a3e22c67c98f
author David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> 1575165257 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1575233945 -0800

mm/memory_hotplug.c: don't allow to online/offline memory blocks with holes

Our onlining/offlining code is unnecessarily complicated.  Only memory
blocks added during boot can have holes (a range that is not
IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM).  Hotplugged memory never has holes (e.g., see
add_memory_resource()).  All memory blocks that belong to boot memory
are already online.

Note that boot memory can have holes and the memmap of the holes is
marked PG_reserved.  However, also memory allocated early during boot is
PG_reserved - basically every page of boot memory that is not given to
the buddy is PG_reserved.

Therefore, when we stop allowing to offline memory blocks with holes, we
implicitly no longer have to deal with onlining memory blocks with
holes.  E.g., online_pages() will do a walk_system_ram_range(...,
online_pages_range), whereby online_pages_range() will effectively only
free the memory holes not falling into a hole to the buddy.  The other
pages (holes) are kept PG_reserved (via
move_pfn_range_to_zone()->memmap_init_zone()).

This allows to simplify the code.  For example, we no longer have to
worry about marking pages that fall into memory holes PG_reserved when
onlining memory.  We can stop setting pages PG_reserved completely in
memmap_init_zone().

Offlining memory blocks added during boot is usually not guaranteed to
work either way (unmovable data might have easily ended up on that
memory during boot).  So stopping to do that should not really hurt.
Also, people are not even aware of a setup where onlining/offlining of
memory blocks with holes used to work reliably (see [1] and [2]
especially regarding the hotplug path) - I doubt it worked reliably.

For the use case of offlining memory to unplug DIMMs, we should see no
change.  (holes on DIMMs would be weird).

Please note that hardware errors (PG_hwpoison) are not memory holes and
are not affected by this change when offlining.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/22/135
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/14/1365

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191119115237.6662-1-david@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>