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SubjectRe: [PATCH] arm64: Add memory hotplug support
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On 11/12/2018 17:24, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 05:21:24PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 11/12/2018 16:36, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 03:29:01PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>>>> Wire up the basic support for hot-adding memory. Since memory hotplug
>>>> is fairly tightly coupled to sparsemem, we tweak pfn_valid() to also
>>>> cross-check the presence of a section in the manner of the generic
>>>> implementation, before falling back to memblock to check for no-map
>>>> regions within a present section as before. By having arch_add_memory(()
>>>> create the linear mapping first, this then makes everything work in the
>>>> way that __add_section() expects.
>>>>
>>>> We expect hotplug to be ACPI-driven, so the swapper_pg_dir updates
>>>> should be safe from races by virtue of the global device hotplug lock.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Looks like I'm not going to have the whole pte_devmap story figured out
>>>> in time to land any ZONE_DEVICE support this cycle, but since this patch
>>>> also stands alone as a complete feature (and has ended up remarkably
>>>> simple and self-contained), I hope we might consider getting it merged
>>>> on its own merit.
>>>>
>>>> Robin.
>>>>
>>>> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++
>>>> arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>>> arch/arm64/mm/numa.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>>> 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> index 6d2b25f51bb3..7b855ae45747 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ config ZONE_DMA32
>>>> config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
>>>> def_bool y
>>>> +config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>>>> + def_bool y
>>>> +
>>>> config SMP
>>>> def_bool y
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>>> index 2983e0fc1786..82e0b08f2e31 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
>>>> @@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
>>>> if ((addr >> PAGE_SHIFT) != pfn)
>>>> return 0;
>>>> +
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
>>>> + if (pfn_to_section_nr(pfn) >= NR_MEM_SECTIONS)
>>>> + return 0;
>>>> +
>>>> + if (!valid_section(__nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn))))
>>>> + return 0;
>>>
>>> I'm a bit nervous about the call to __nr_to_section() here. How do we
>>> ensure that the section number we're passing stays within the bounds of
>>> the mem_section array?
>>
>> The same way every other sparsemem user (apart from arch/arm) does, I guess
>> - this is literally a copy-paste of the generic pfn_valid() implementation
>> :/
>
> I don't trust the generic pfn_valid() at all :)
>
>> Given the implementation of __nr_to_section() respective of how
>> memory_present() and sparse_index_init() set up mem_section in the first
>> place, I can't see how there can be a problem. You did see the bit 4 lines
>> above, right?
>
> D'oh, yes, I read that and then instantly forgot it. Ok, so that should be
> fine.
>
>>>> +#endif
>>>> return memblock_is_map_memory(addr);
>>>> }
>>>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pfn_valid);
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>>> index e1b2d58a311a..22379a74d289 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>>>> @@ -1044,3 +1044,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr)
>>>> pmd_free(NULL, table);
>>>> return 1;
>>>> }
>>>> +
>>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>>>> +int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
>>>> + bool want_memblock)
>>>> +{
>>>> + __create_pgd_mapping(swapper_pg_dir, start, __phys_to_virt(start),
>>>> + size, PAGE_KERNEL, pgd_pgtable_alloc, 0);
>>>> +
>>>> + return __add_pages(nid, start >> PAGE_SHIFT, size >> PAGE_SHIFT,
>>>> + altmap, want_memblock);
>>>> +}
>>>
>>> If we're mapping the new memory into the linear map, shouldn't we be
>>> respecting rodata_full and debug page alloc by forcing page granularity
>>> and tweaking the permissions?
>>
>> Bah, James mentioned debug_pagealloc long ago, and I did have a slight
>> nagging feeling that I was still missing something - yes, I need to fix the
>> flags for that case. I'm not sure about rodata_full (do you mean
>> STRICT_KERNEL_RWX?) since a section being added here won't contain kernel
>> text nor data, and I can't seem to find anywhere that rodata options affect
>> the linear mapping of plain free RAM.
>
> Ah, we've got code queued on for-next/core so that changing vmalloc()
> permissions makes the same changes to the linear map.

Gotcha, I see "arm64: mm: apply r/o permissions of VM areas to its
linear alias as well" now, no wonder I couldn't find anything relevant
in my rc3-based development branch. I'll rebase and add that case too.

Thanks,
Robin.

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