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From: qiuxishi@huawei•com (Xishi Qiu)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] arm64: memory-hotplug: Add Memory Hotplug support
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 11:11:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5840E659.6000104@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cfa95ca-a9e9-299d-d020-7e565562dcf5@broadcom.com>

On 2016/12/2 10:38, Scott Branden wrote:

> Hi Xishi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply - please see comments below.
> 
> On 16-12-01 05:49 PM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>> On 2016/12/2 8:19, Scott Branden wrote:
>>
>>> This patchset is sent for comment to add memory hotplug support for ARM64
>>> based platforms.  It follows hotplug code added for other architectures
>>> in the linux kernel.
>>>
>>> I tried testing the memory hotplug feature following documentation from
>>> Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.  I don't think it is working as expected
>>> - see below:
>>>
>>> To add memory to the system I did the following:
>>> echo 0x400000000 > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
>>>
>>> The memory is displayed as system ram:
>>> cat /proc/iomem:
>>> 74000000-77ffffff : System RAM
>>>   74080000-748dffff : Kernel code
>>>   74950000-749d2fff : Kernel data
>>> 400000000-43fffffff : System RAM
>>>
>>> But does not seem to be added to the kernel memory.
>>> /proc/meminfo did not change.
>>>
>>> What else needs to be done so the memory is added to the kernel memory
>>> pool for normal allocation?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> Do you mean it still don't support hod-add after apply this patchset?
> 
> After applying the patch it appears to partially support hot-add. Please let me know if you think it is working as expected?
> 
> The memory probe functions in that the memory is registered with the system and shows up in /proc/iomem.  But, the memory is not available in /proc/meminfo.  Do you think something else needs to be adjusted for ARM64 to hotadd the memory
> 
> I just found another clue:
> under /sys/devices/system/memory I only see one memory entry (before or after I try to hotadd additional memory).
> 
> /sys/devices/system/memory # ls
> auto_online_blocks  memory0            uevent
> block_size_bytes    probe
> 
> In arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h if I change SECTION_SIZE_BITS from 30 to 28 and recompile I get the following:
> /sys/devices/system/memory # ls
> auto_online_blocks  memory7            uevent
> block_size_bytes    probe
> 
> 
> In arch/arm64/include/asm/sparsemem.h if I change SECTION_SIZE_BITS from 30 to 27 and recompile I get the following:
> /sys/devices/system/memory # ls
> auto_online_blocks  memory14            uevent
> block_size_bytes    probe
> 
> If looks to me like something is not working properly in the ARM64 implementation.  I should expect to see multiple memoryX entries under /sys/devices/system/memory?
> 

Hi Scott,

1. Do you enable the following configs?
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
MEMORY_HOTPLUG
CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE

2. I find you missed create mapping in arch_add_memory(), and x86 has it.

3. We will add memblock first, so pfn_valid() maybe always return true(in the
following function), and this will lead __add_section() failed. Please check
it.

int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
{
	return (pfn & PFN_MASK) == pfn && memblock_is_memory(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
}

add_memory
  add_memory_resource
    memblock_add_node
      arch_add_memory
        __add_pages
          __add_section
            pfn_valid

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu

> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Xishi Qiu
>>
>>> Scott Branden (2):
>>>   arm64: memory-hotplug: Add MEMORY_HOTPLUG, MEMORY_HOTREMOVE,
>>>     MEMORY_PROBE
>>>   arm64: defconfig: enable MEMORY_HOTPLUG config options
>>>
>>>  arch/arm64/Kconfig           | 10 ++++++++++
>>>  arch/arm64/configs/defconfig |  3 +++
>>>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c         | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  3 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> .
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-02  0:19 [RFC PATCH 0/2] arm64: memory-hotplug: Add Memory Hotplug support Scott Branden
2016-12-02  0:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] arm64: memory-hotplug: Add MEMORY_HOTPLUG, MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, MEMORY_PROBE Scott Branden
2016-12-02  0:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm64: defconfig: enable MEMORY_HOTPLUG config options Scott Branden
2016-12-02  1:49 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] arm64: memory-hotplug: Add Memory Hotplug support Xishi Qiu
2016-12-02  2:38   ` Scott Branden
2016-12-02  3:11     ` Xishi Qiu [this message]
2016-12-07  8:43       ` Scott Branden
2016-12-07 11:21         ` Xishi Qiu
2016-12-02  9:13 ` Maciej Bielski
2016-12-02 10:49   ` Will Deacon
2016-12-02 10:55     ` Maciej Bielski
2016-12-02 17:40       ` Scott Branden

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