Re: [PATCH V3 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory

From: Jia He
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 23:58:39 EST


Hi

On 2020/3/31 13:09, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
This series enables vmemmap backing memory allocation from device memory
ranges on arm64. But before that, it enables vmemmap_populate_basepages()
and vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() to accommodate struct vmem_altmap based
alocation requests.

I verified no obvious regression after this patch series.

Host: ThunderX2(armv8a server), kernel v5.4

qemu:v3.1, -M virt \

-object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,share=on,mem-path=/tmp2/nvdimm.img,size=4G,align=2M \

-device nvdimm,id=nvdimm1,memdev=mem1,label-size=2M

Guest: kernel v5.7.0-rc5 with this patch series.

Tested case:

- 4K PAGESIZE, boot, mount w/ -o dax, mount w/o -o dax, basic io

- 64K PAGESIZE,boot, mount w/ -o dax, mount w/o -o dax, basic io

Not tested:

- 16K pagesize due to my hardware limiation(can't run 16K pgsz kernel)

- hot-add/remove nvdimm device from qemu due to no fully support on arm64 qemu yet

- Host nvdimm device hotplug

Hence from above result,

Tested-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>

This series applies after latest (v14) arm64 memory hot remove series
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/3/1746) on Linux 5.6.

Pending Question:

altmap_alloc_block_buf() does not have any other remaining users in the
tree after this change. Should it be converted into a static function and
it's declaration be dropped from the header (include/linux/mm.h). Avoided
doing so because I was not sure if there are any off-tree users or not.

Changes in V3:

- Dropped comment from free_hotplug_page_range() per Robin
- Modified comment in unmap_hotplug_range() per Robin
- Enabled altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() per Robin

Changes in V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/4/475)

- Rebased on latest hot-remove series (v14) adding P4D page table support

Changes in V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/23/12)

- Added an WARN_ON() in unmap_hotplug_range() when altmap is
provided without the page table backing memory being freed

Changes in RFC V2: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/21/11)

- Changed the commit message on 1/2 patch per Will
- Changed the commit message on 2/2 patch as well
- Rebased on arm64 memory hot remove series (v10)

RFC V1: (https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/28/32)

Cc: Catalin Marinas<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon<will@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Cc: Palmer Dabbelt<palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Anshuman Khandual (3):
mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages()
mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
arm64/mm: Enable vmem_altmap support for vmemmap mappings

arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 10 +++----
arch/riscv/mm/init.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 12 ++++----
include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++--
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

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Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)