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      drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory blocks as removable · 53cdc1cb
      David Hildenbrand 提交于
      We see multiple issues with the implementation/interface to compute
      whether a memory block can be offlined (exposed via
      /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable) and would like to simplify
      it (remove the implementation).
      
      1. It runs basically lockless. While this might be good for performance,
         we see possible races with memory offlining that will require at
         least some sort of locking to fix.
      
      2. Nowadays, more false positives are possible. No arch-specific checks
         are performed that validate if memory offlining will not be denied
         right away (and such check will require locking). For example, arm64
         won't allow to offline any memory block that was added during boot -
         which will imply a very high error rate. Other archs have other
         constraints.
      
      3. The interface is inherently racy. E.g., if a memory block is detected
         to be removable (and was not a false positive at that time), there is
         still no guarantee that offlining will actually succeed. So any
         caller already has to deal with false positives.
      
      4. It is unclear which performance benefit this interface actually
         provides. The introducing commit 5c755e9f ("memory-hotplug: add
         sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove") mentioned
      
      	"A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections
      	 of memory are likely to be removable before attempting the
      	 potentially expensive operation."
      
         However, no actual performance comparison was included.
      
      Known users:
      
       - lsmem: Will group memory blocks based on the "removable" property. [1]
      
       - chmem: Indirect user. It has a RANGE mode where one can specify
                removable ranges identified via lsmem to be offlined. However,
                it also has a "SIZE" mode, which allows a sysadmin to skip the
                manual "identify removable blocks" step. [2]
      
       - powerpc-utils: Uses the "removable" attribute to skip some memory
                blocks right away when trying to find some to offline+remove.
                However, with ballooning enabled, it already skips this
                information completely (because it once resulted in many false
                negatives). Therefore, the implementation can deal with false
                positives properly already. [3]
      
      According to Nathan Fontenot, DLPAR on powerpc is nowadays no longer
      driven from userspace via the drmgr command (powerpc-utils).  Nowadays
      it's managed in the kernel - including onlining/offlining of memory
      blocks - triggered by drmgr writing to /sys/kernel/dlpar.  So the
      affected legacy userspace handling is only active on old kernels.  Only
      very old versions of drmgr on a new kernel (unlikely) might execute
      slower - totally acceptable.
      
      With CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, always indicating "removable" should not
      break any user space tool.  We implement a very bad heuristic now.
      Without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE we cannot offline anything, so report
      "not removable" as before.
      
      Original discussion can be found in [4] ("[PATCH RFC v1] mm:
      is_mem_section_removable() overhaul").
      
      Other users of is_mem_section_removable() will be removed next, so that
      we can remove is_mem_section_removable() completely.
      
      [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/lsmem.1.html
      [2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/chmem.8.html
      [3] https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils
      [4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200117105759.27905-1-david@redhat.com
      
      Also, this patch probably fixes a crash reported by Steve.
      http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPcyv4jpdaNvJ67SkjyUJLBnBnXXQv686BiVW042g03FUmWLXw@mail.gmail.comReported-by: N"Scargall, Steve" <steve.scargall@intel.com>
      Suggested-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: NNathan Fontenot <ndfont@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
      Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200128093542.6908-1-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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