On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:30:51 +0800 Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> From: Tang Chen <tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> The Linux kernel cannot migrate pages used by the kernel. As a
> result, kernel pages cannot be hot-removed. So we cannot allocate
> hotpluggable memory for the kernel.
>
> In a memory hotplug system, any numa node the kernel resides in
> should be unhotpluggable. And for a modern server, each node could
> have at least 16GB memory. So memory around the kernel image is
> highly likely unhotpluggable.
>
> ACPI SRAT (System Resource Affinity Table) contains the memory
> hotplug info. But before SRAT is parsed, memblock has already
> started to allocate memory for the kernel. So we need to prevent
> memblock from doing this.
>
> So direct memory mapping page tables setup is the case. init_mem_mapping()
> is called before SRAT is parsed. To prevent page tables being allocated
> within hotpluggable memory, we will use bottom-up direction to allocate
> page tables from the end of kernel image to the higher memory.
>
> ...
>
> + kernel_end = __pa_symbol(_end);
__pa_symbol() is implemented only on mips and x86.
I stole the mips implementation like this:
--- a/mm/memblock.c~a
+++ a/mm/memblock.c
@@ -187,8 +187,11 @@ phys_addr_t __init_memblock memblock_fin
/* avoid allocating the first page */
start = max_t(phys_addr_t, start, PAGE_SIZE);
end = max(start, end);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
kernel_end = __pa_symbol(_end);
-
+#else
+ kernel_end = __pa(RELOC_HIDE((unsigned long)(_end), 0));
+#endif
/*
* try bottom-up allocation only when bottom-up mode
* is set and @end is above the kernel image.
just so I can get a -mm release out the door.
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