mm/page_alloc.c: calculate zone_start_pfn at zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
Xeon E7 v3 based systems supports Address Range Mirroring and UEFI BIOS complied with UEFI spec 2.5 can notify which ranges are mirrored (reliable) via EFI memory map. Now Linux kernel utilize its information and allocates boot time memory from reliable region. My requirement is: - allocate kernel memory from mirrored region - allocate user memory from non-mirrored region In order to meet my requirement, ZONE_MOVABLE is useful. By arranging non-mirrored range into ZONE_MOVABLE, mirrored memory is used for kernel allocations. My idea is to extend existing "kernelcore" option and introduces kernelcore=mirror option. By specifying "mirror" instead of specifying the amount of memory, non-mirrored region will be arranged into ZONE_MOVABLE. Earlier discussions are at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/9/24 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/15/9 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/27/18 https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/8/836 For example, suppose 2-nodes system with the following memory range: node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000109fffffff] node 1 [mem 0x00000010a0000000-0x000000209fffffff] and the following ranges are marked as reliable (mirrored): [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000100000000] [0x0000000100000000-0x0000000180000000] [0x0000000800000000-0x0000000880000000] [0x00000010a0000000-0x0000001120000000] [0x00000017a0000000-0x0000001820000000] If you specify kernelcore=mirror, ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE are arranged like bellow: - node 0: ZONE_NORMAL : [0x0000000100000000-0x00000010a0000000] ZONE_MOVABLE: [0x0000000180000000-0x00000010a0000000] - node 1: ZONE_NORMAL : [0x00000010a0000000-0x00000020a0000000] ZONE_MOVABLE: [0x0000001120000000-0x00000020a0000000] In overlapped range, pages to be ZONE_MOVABLE in ZONE_NORMAL are treated as absent pages, and vice versa. This patch (of 2): Currently each zone's zone_start_pfn is calculated at free_area_init_core(). However zone's range is fixed at the time when invoking zone_spanned_pages_in_node(). This patch changes how each zone->zone_start_pfn is calculated in zone_spanned_pages_in_node(). Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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