On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 03:53:40PM +0800, mawupeng wrote:
On 2023/6/19 15:41, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 19.06.23 09:22, mawupeng wrote:
On 2023/6/19 15:16, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 02:51:21PM +0800, Wupeng Ma wrote:
From: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com
commit 8dc4bb58a146655eb057247d7c9d19e73928715b upstream.
virtio-mem soon wants to use offline_and_remove_memory() memory that exceeds a single Linux memory block (memory_block_size_bytes()). Let's remove that restriction.
Let's remember the old state and try to restore that if anything goes wrong. While re-onlining can, in general, fail, it's highly unlikely to happen (usually only when a notifier fails to allocate memory, and these are rather rare).
This will be used by virtio-mem to offline+remove memory ranges that are bigger than a single memory block - for example, with a device block size of 1 GiB (e.g., gigantic pages in the hypervisor) and a Linux memory block size of 128MB.
While we could compress the state into 2 bit, using 8 bit is much easier.
This handling is similar, but different to acpi_scan_try_to_offline():
a) We don't try to offline twice. I am not sure if this CONFIG_MEMCG optimization is still relevant - it should only apply to ZONE_NORMAL (where we have no guarantees). If relevant, we can always add it.
b) acpi_scan_try_to_offline() simply onlines all memory in case something goes wrong. It doesn't restore previous online type. Let's do that, so we won't overwrite what e.g., user space configured.
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" mst@redhat.com Cc: Jason Wang jasowang@redhat.com Cc: Pankaj Gupta pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@kernel.org Cc: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Cc: Wei Yang richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201112133815.13332-28-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin mst@redhat.com Acked-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ma Wupeng mawupeng1@huawei.com
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 89 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Why is this needed in 5.10.y? Looks like a new feature to me, what problem does it solve there?
thanks,
greg k-h
It do introduce a new feature. But at the same time, it fix a memleak introduced in Commit 08b3acd7a68f ("mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()"
Our test find a memleak in init_memory_block, it is clear that mem is never been released due to wrong refcount. Commit 08b3acd7a68f ("mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()") failed to dec refcount after find_memory_block which fail to dec refcount to zero in remove memory causing the leak.
Commit 8dc4bb58a146 ("mm/memory_hotplug: extend offline_and_remove_memory() to handle more than one memory block") introduce walk_memory_blocks to replace find_memory_block which dec refcount by calling put_device after find_memory_block_by_id. In the way, the memleak is fixed.
Here is the simplified calltrace:
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x664/0xed0 init_memory_block+0x8c/0x170 create_memory_block_devices+0xa4/0x150 add_memory_resource+0x188/0x530 __add_memory+0x78/0x104 add_memory+0x6c/0xb0
Makes sense to me. Of course, we could think about a simplified stable fix that only drops the ref.
Since the new patch does not introduce any kabi change, maybe we can merge this one？
stable kernels never care about "kabi", that is a made up thing that some distros work to enforce only. It has nothing to do with the community.
And I will always prefer to take the real commit that is in Linus's tree over any "custom" patch, as 90%+ of the time, custom changes are almost always wrong.
thanks,
greg k-h