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Patch series "selective merging of system ram resources", v4. Some add_memory*() users add memory in small, contiguous memory blocks. Examples include virtio-mem, hyper-v balloon, and the XEN balloon. This can quickly result in a lot of memory resources, whereby the actual resource boundaries are not of interest (e.g., it might be relevant for DIMMs, exposed via /proc/iomem to user space). We really want to merge added resources in this scenario where possible. Resources are effectively stored in a list-based tree. Having a lot of resources not only wastes memory, it also makes traversing that tree more expensive, and makes /proc/iomem explode in size (e.g., requiring kexec-tools to manually merge resources when creating a kdump header. The current kexec-tools resource count limit does not allow for more than ~100GB of memory with a memory block size of 128MB on x86-64). Let's allow to selectively merge system ram resources by specifying a new flag for add_memory*(). Patch #5 contains a /proc/iomem example. Only tested with virtio-mem. This patch (of 8): Let's make sure splitting a resource on memory hotunplug will never fail. This will become more relevant once we merge selected System RAM resources - then, we'll trigger that case more often on memory hotunplug. In general, this function is already unlikely to fail. When we remove memory, we free up quite a lot of metadata (memmap, page tables, memory block device, etc.). The only reason it could really fail would be when injecting allocation errors. All other error cases inside release_mem_region_adjustable() seem to be sanity checks if the function would be abused in different context - let's add WARN_ON_ONCE() in these cases so we can catch them. [natechancellor@gmail.com: fix use of ternary condition in release_mem_region_adjustable] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200922060748.2452056-1-natechancellor@gmail.com Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1159 Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com> Cc: Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@suse.cz> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Roger Pau Monn <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200911103459.10306-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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