mm/memory_hotplug: MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE to specify merging of System RAM resources

Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks.
Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon.

This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual
resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for
DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space).  We really want to merge
added resources in this scenario where possible.

Let's provide a flag (MEMHP_MERGE_RESOURCE) to specify that a resource
either created within add_memory*() or passed via add_memory_resource()
shall be marked mergeable and merged with applicable siblings.

To implement that, we need a kernel/resource interface to mark selected
System RAM resources mergeable (IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_MERGEABLE) and trigger
merging.

Note: We really want to merge after the whole operation succeeded, not
directly when adding a resource to the resource tree (it would break
add_memory_resource() and require splitting resources again when the
operation failed - e.g., due to -ENOMEM).

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: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>
Cc: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
Cc: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jiang <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Leonardo Bras <[email protected]>
Cc: Libor Pechacek <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[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: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Vishal Verma <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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