mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory

Try to allocate all boot time kernel data structures from mirrored
memory.

If we run out of mirrored memory print warnings, but fall back to using
non-mirrored memory to make sure that we still boot.

By number of bytes, most of what we allocate at boot time is the page
structures.  64 bytes per 4K page on x86_64 ...  or about 1.5% of total
system memory.  For workloads where the bulk of memory is allocated to
applications this may represent a useful improvement to system
availability since 1.5% of total memory might be a third of the memory
allocated to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
index 7aeec0cb4c27..0215ffd63069 100644
--- a/include/linux/memblock.h
+++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 enum {
 	MEMBLOCK_NONE		= 0x0,	/* No special request */
 	MEMBLOCK_HOTPLUG	= 0x1,	/* hotpluggable region */
+	MEMBLOCK_MIRROR		= 0x2,	/* mirrored region */
 };
 
 struct memblock_region {
@@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ int memblock_reserve(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
 void memblock_trim_memory(phys_addr_t align);
 int memblock_mark_hotplug(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
 int memblock_clear_hotplug(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
+int memblock_mark_mirror(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
+ulong choose_memblock_flags(void);
 
 /* Low level functions */
 int memblock_add_range(struct memblock_type *type,
@@ -160,6 +163,11 @@ static inline bool movable_node_is_enabled(void)
 }
 #endif
 
+static inline bool memblock_is_mirror(struct memblock_region *m)
+{
+	return m->flags & MEMBLOCK_MIRROR;
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
 int memblock_search_pfn_nid(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long *start_pfn,
 			    unsigned long  *end_pfn);