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author | Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> | 2008-07-23 21:28:19 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -0700 |
commit | 5c755e9fd813810680abd56ec09a5f90143e815b (patch) | |
tree | 1686c0666f6bd630441957a53c546d90b0f61723 /mm | |
parent | 2f7f24eca31c4fc2fdb134b2ef743ccd67cfb9a9 (diff) | |
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memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove
Memory may be hot-removed on a per-memory-block basis, particularly on
POWER where the SPARSEMEM section size often matches the memory-block
size. A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections of
memory are likely to be removable before attempting the potentially
expensive operation. This patch adds a file called "removable" to the
memory directory in sysfs to help such an agent. In this patch, a memory
block is considered removable if;
o It contains only MOVABLE pageblocks
o It contains only pageblocks with free pages regardless of pageblock type
On the other hand, a memory block starting with a PageReserved() page will
never be considered removable. Without this patch, the user-agent is
forced to choose a memory block to remove randomly.
Sample output of the sysfs files:
./memory/memory0/removable: 0
./memory/memory1/removable: 0
./memory/memory2/removable: 0
./memory/memory3/removable: 0
./memory/memory4/removable: 0
./memory/memory5/removable: 0
./memory/memory6/removable: 0
./memory/memory7/removable: 1
./memory/memory8/removable: 0
./memory/memory9/removable: 0
./memory/memory10/removable: 0
./memory/memory11/removable: 0
./memory/memory12/removable: 0
./memory/memory13/removable: 0
./memory/memory14/removable: 0
./memory/memory15/removable: 0
./memory/memory16/removable: 0
./memory/memory17/removable: 1
./memory/memory18/removable: 1
./memory/memory19/removable: 1
./memory/memory20/removable: 1
./memory/memory21/removable: 1
./memory/memory22/removable: 1
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memory_hotplug.c | 60 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 93aba78dc8b6..89fee2dcb039 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -523,6 +523,66 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_memory); #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE /* + * A free page on the buddy free lists (not the per-cpu lists) has PageBuddy + * set and the size of the free page is given by page_order(). Using this, + * the function determines if the pageblock contains only free pages. + * Due to buddy contraints, a free page at least the size of a pageblock will + * be located at the start of the pageblock + */ +static inline int pageblock_free(struct page *page) +{ + return PageBuddy(page) && page_order(page) >= pageblock_order; +} + +/* Return the start of the next active pageblock after a given page */ +static struct page *next_active_pageblock(struct page *page) +{ + int pageblocks_stride; + + /* Ensure the starting page is pageblock-aligned */ + BUG_ON(page_to_pfn(page) & (pageblock_nr_pages - 1)); + + /* Move forward by at least 1 * pageblock_nr_pages */ + pageblocks_stride = 1; + + /* If the entire pageblock is free, move to the end of free page */ + if (pageblock_free(page)) + pageblocks_stride += page_order(page) - pageblock_order; + + return page + (pageblocks_stride * pageblock_nr_pages); +} + +/* Checks if this range of memory is likely to be hot-removable. */ +int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages) +{ + int type; + struct page *page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn); + struct page *end_page = page + nr_pages; + + /* Check the starting page of each pageblock within the range */ + for (; page < end_page; page = next_active_pageblock(page)) { + type = get_pageblock_migratetype(page); + + /* + * A pageblock containing MOVABLE or free pages is considered + * removable + */ + if (type != MIGRATE_MOVABLE && !pageblock_free(page)) + return 0; + + /* + * A pageblock starting with a PageReserved page is not + * considered removable. + */ + if (PageReserved(page)) + return 0; + } + + /* All pageblocks in the memory block are likely to be hot-removable */ + return 1; +} + +/* * Confirm all pages in a range [start, end) is belongs to the same zone. */ static int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn) |