David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com> writes: > In commit 53cdc1cb29e8 ("drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory > blocks as removable"), the user space interface to compute whether a memory > block can be offlined (exposed via > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable) has effectively been > deprecated. We want to remove the leftovers of the kernel implementation. > > When offlining a memory block (mm/memory_hotplug.c:__offline_pages()), > we'll start by: > 1. Testing if it contains any holes, and reject if so > 2. Testing if pages belong to different zones, and reject if so > 3. Isolating the page range, checking if it contains any unmovable pages > > Using is_mem_section_removable() before trying to offline is not only racy, > it can easily result in false positives/negatives. Let's stop manually > checking is_mem_section_removable(), and let device_offline() handle it > completely instead. We can remove the racy is_mem_section_removable() > implementation next. > > We now take more locks (e.g., memory hotplug lock when offlining and the > zone lock when isolating), but maybe we should optimize that > implementation instead if this ever becomes a real problem (after all, > memory unplug is already an expensive operation). We started using > is_mem_section_removable() in commit 51925fb3c5c9 ("powerpc/pseries: > Implement memory hotplug remove in the kernel"), with the initial > hotremove support of lmbs.
It's also not very pretty in dmesg. Before: pseries-hotplug-mem: Attempting to hot-add 10 LMB(s) pseries-hotplug-mem: Memory hot-add failed, removing any added LMBs dlpar: Could not handle DLPAR request "memory add count 10" After: pseries-hotplug-mem: Attempting to hot-remove 10 LMB(s) page:c00c000001ca8200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc00000072a080180 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 c00c000001cffd48 c000000781c51410 c000000793327580 raw: c00000072a080180 0000000001550001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001cc4a80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc00000079b110080 flags: 0x7ffff000000000() raw: 007ffff000000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000 raw: c00000079b110080 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001d08200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc00000074208ff00 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 c000000781c5f150 c00c000001d37f88 c000000798a24880 raw: c00000074208ff00 0000000001550002 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001d40140 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc000000750059c00 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 c00c000001dfcfc8 c00c000001d3c288 c0000007851c2d00 raw: c000000750059c00 0000000001000003 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001d9c000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc000000002370080 flags: 0x7ffff000000000() raw: 007ffff000000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000 raw: c000000002370080 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001dc0200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc000000002370080 flags: 0x7ffff000000000() raw: 007ffff000000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000 raw: c000000002370080 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001e00000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0x0 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 c0000007a801f500 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000008000800 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001e40440 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0x0 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 c0000007a801e380 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000400040 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000001e80000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc0000007a0000640 flags: 0x7ffff000000200(slab) raw: 007ffff000000200 c00c000001e5af48 c00c000001e80408 c000000f42d00a00 raw: c0000007a0000640 00000000066600a2 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000003c89d40 refcount:2 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0x10a41 anon flags: 0x17ffff000080024(uptodate|active|swapbacked) raw: 017ffff000080024 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 c0000007986b03c9 raw: 0000000000010a41 0000000000000000 0000000200000000 c00000000340b000 page dumped because: unmovable page page->mem_cgroup:c00000000340b000 page:c00c000003cc0000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc000000f3000fd38 flags: 0x17ffff000000200(slab) raw: 017ffff000000200 c000000f3c911890 c000000f3c911890 c00000079fffd980 raw: c000000f3000fd38 0000000000700003 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000003d00000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc0000007a2ec0000 flags: 0x17ffff000000000() raw: 017ffff000000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000 raw: c0000007a2ec0000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000003e2c000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0xc000000f8b008400 flags: 0x27ffff000000200(slab) raw: 027ffff000000200 c000000f8e000190 c000000f8e000190 c0000007a801e380 raw: c000000f8b008400 0000000000400038 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page page:c00c000003fec000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000018c4a547 index:0x0 flags: 0x37ffff000000000() raw: 037ffff000000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: unmovable page pseries-hotplug-mem: Memory hot-remove failed, adding LMB's back dlpar: Could not handle DLPAR request "memory remove count 10" It looks like set_migratetype_isolate() and start_isolate_page_range() can be told not to report those warnings, but we're just calling device_offline() which doesn't let us specify that. cheers