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authorTang Chen <[email protected]>2013-02-22 16:33:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2013-02-23 17:50:14 -0800
commit01a178a94e8eaec351b29ee49fbb3d1c124cb7fb (patch)
treede978b65bf5d4a05c78cb5ce1180dc3fb04bd12d /tools/perf/scripts/python
parent27168d38fa209073219abedbe6a9de7ba9acbfad (diff)
acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT
We now provide an option for users who don't want to specify physical memory address in kernel commandline. /* * For movablemem_map=acpi: * * SRAT: |_____| |_____| |_________| |_________| ...... * node id: 0 1 1 2 * hotpluggable: n y y n * movablemem_map: |_____| |_________| * * Using movablemem_map, we can prevent memblock from allocating memory * on ZONE_MOVABLE at boot time. */ So user just specify movablemem_map=acpi, and the kernel will use hotpluggable info in SRAT to determine which memory ranges should be set as ZONE_MOVABLE. If all the memory ranges in SRAT is hotpluggable, then no memory can be used by kernel. But before parsing SRAT, memblock has already reserve some memory ranges for other purposes, such as for kernel image, and so on. We cannot prevent kernel from using these memory. So we need to exclude these ranges even if these memory is hotpluggable. Furthermore, there could be several memory ranges in the single node which the kernel resides in. We may skip one range that have memory reserved by memblock, but if the rest of memory is too small, then the kernel will fail to boot. So, make the whole node which the kernel resides in un-hotpluggable. Then the kernel has enough memory to use. NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the whole node will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory on it. If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use it. [[email protected]: fix warning] [[email protected]: use strcmp()] Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <[email protected]> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]> Cc: Jiang Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Jianguo Wu <[email protected]> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> Cc: Wu Jianguo <[email protected]> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]> Cc: "Brown, Len" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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