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mm: remove x86-only restriction of movable_node
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In commit c532092 ("mem-hotplug: introduce movable_node boot
option"), the memblock allocation direction is changed to bottom-up and
then back to top-down like this:

1. memblock_set_bottom_up(true), called by cmdline_parse_movable_node().
2. memblock_set_bottom_up(false), called by x86's numa_init().

Even though (1) occurs in generic mm code, it is wrapped by #ifdef
CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which depends on X86_64.

This means that when we extend CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE to non-x86 arches,
things will be unbalanced.  (1) will happen for them, but (2) will not.

This toggle was added in the first place because x86 has a delay between
adding memblocks and marking them as hotpluggable.  Since other arches
do this marking either immediately or not at all, they do not require
the bottom-up toggle.

So, resolve things by moving (1) from cmdline_parse_movable_node() to
x86's setup_arch(), immediately after the movable_node parameter has
been parsed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479160961-25840-3-git-send-email-arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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Expand Up @@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
is not too small.

movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.

MTD_Partition= [MTD]
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
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Expand Up @@ -985,6 +985,30 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)

parse_early_param();

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/*
* Memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed because Linux
* cannot migrate the kernel pages. When memory hotplug is
* enabled, we should prevent memblock from allocating memory
* for the kernel.
*
* ACPI SRAT records all hotpluggable memory ranges. But before
* SRAT is parsed, we don't know about it.
*
* The kernel image is loaded into memory at very early time. We
* cannot prevent this anyway. So on NUMA system, we set any
* node the kernel resides in as un-hotpluggable.
*
* Since on modern servers, one node could have double-digit
* gigabytes memory, we can assume the memory around the kernel
* image is also un-hotpluggable. So before SRAT is parsed, just
* allocate memory near the kernel image to try the best to keep
* the kernel away from hotpluggable memory.
*/
if (movable_node_is_enabled())
memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
#endif

x86_report_nx();

/* after early param, so could get panic from serial */
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20 changes: 0 additions & 20 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -1727,26 +1727,6 @@ static bool can_offline_normal(struct zone *zone, unsigned long nr_pages)
static int __init cmdline_parse_movable_node(char *p)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
/*
* Memory used by the kernel cannot be hot-removed because Linux
* cannot migrate the kernel pages. When memory hotplug is
* enabled, we should prevent memblock from allocating memory
* for the kernel.
*
* ACPI SRAT records all hotpluggable memory ranges. But before
* SRAT is parsed, we don't know about it.
*
* The kernel image is loaded into memory at very early time. We
* cannot prevent this anyway. So on NUMA system, we set any
* node the kernel resides in as un-hotpluggable.
*
* Since on modern servers, one node could have double-digit
* gigabytes memory, we can assume the memory around the kernel
* image is also un-hotpluggable. So before SRAT is parsed, just
* allocate memory near the kernel image to try the best to keep
* the kernel away from hotpluggable memory.
*/
memblock_set_bottom_up(true);
movable_node_enabled = true;
#else
pr_warn("movable_node option not supported\n");
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