On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 02:57:54PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Towards enabling memory hotplug to track partial population of a
> section, introduce 'struct mem_section_usage'.
>
> A pointer to a 'struct mem_section_usage' instance replaces the existing
> pointer to a 'pageblock_flags' bitmap. Effectively it adds one more
> 'unsigned long' beyond the 'pageblock_flags' (usemap) allocation to
> house a new 'subsection_map' bitmap. The new bitmap enables the memory
> hot{plug,remove} implementation to act on incremental sub-divisions of a
> section.
>
> The default SUBSECTION_SHIFT is chosen to keep the 'subsection_map' no
> larger than a single 'unsigned long' on the major architectures.
> Alternatively an architecture can define ARCH_SUBSECTION_SHIFT to
> override the default PMD_SHIFT. Note that PowerPC needs to use
> ARCH_SUBSECTION_SHIFT to workaround PMD_SHIFT being a non-constant
> expression on PowerPC.
>
> The primary motivation for this functionality is to support platforms
> that mix "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" within a single section,
> or multiple PMEM ranges with different mapping lifetimes within a single
> section. The section restriction for hotplug has caused an ongoing saga
> of hacks and bugs for devm_memremap_pages() users.
>
> Beyond the fixups to teach existing paths how to retrieve the 'usemap'
> from a section, and updates to usemap allocation path, there are no
> expected behavior changes.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <log...@deltatee.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@soleen.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>
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