virtio-mem: try to merge system ram resources

virtio-mem adds memory in memory block granularity, to be able to remove
it in the same granularity again later, and to grow slowly on demand.
This, however, results in quite a lot of resources when adding a lot of
memory.  Resources are effectively stored in a list-based tree.  Having a
lot of resources not only wastes memory, it also makes traversing that
tree more expensive, and makes /proc/iomem explode in size (e.g.,
requiring kexec-tools to manually merge resources later when e.g., trying
to create a kdump header).

Before this patch, we get (/proc/iomem) when hotplugging 2G via virtio-mem
on x86-64:
        [...]
        100000000-13fffffff : System RAM
        140000000-33fffffff : virtio0
          140000000-147ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          148000000-14fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          150000000-157ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          158000000-15fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          160000000-167ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          168000000-16fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          170000000-177ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          178000000-17fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          180000000-187ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          188000000-18fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          190000000-197ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          198000000-19fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          1a0000000-1a7ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          1a8000000-1afffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          1b0000000-1b7ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
          1b8000000-1bfffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
        3280000000-32ffffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00

With this patch, we get (/proc/iomem):
        [...]
        fffc0000-ffffffff : Reserved
        100000000-13fffffff : System RAM
        140000000-33fffffff : virtio0
          140000000-1bfffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem)
        3280000000-32ffffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00

Of course, with more hotplugged memory, it gets worse.  When unplugging
memory blocks again, try_remove_memory() (via offline_and_remove_memory())
will properly split the resource up again.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <[email protected]>
Cc: Libor Pechacek <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>
Cc: "Oliver O'Halloran" <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
Cc: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
index ed99e4335401..ba4de598f663 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c
@@ -424,7 +424,8 @@ static int virtio_mem_mb_add(struct virtio_mem *vm, unsigned long mb_id)
 
 	dev_dbg(&vm->vdev->dev, "adding memory block: %lu\n", mb_id);
 	return add_memory_driver_managed(nid, addr, memory_block_size_bytes(),
-					 vm->resource_name, MHP_NONE);
+					 vm->resource_name,
+					 MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE);
 }
 
 /*