From: Tang Chen Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:07:59 +0000 (-0800) Subject: mm/memblock.c: introduce bottom-up allocation mode X-Git-Tag: v3.13-rc1~106^2~204 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=79442ed189acb8b949662676e750eda173c06f9b;p=pandora-kernel.git mm/memblock.c: introduce bottom-up allocation mode 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. 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. 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. So the basic idea is: Allocate memory from the end of the kernel image and to the higher memory. Since memory allocation before SRAT is parsed won't be too much, it could highly likely be in the same node with kernel image. The current memblock can only allocate memory top-down. So this patch introduces a new bottom-up allocation mode to allocate memory bottom-up. And later when we use this allocation direction to allocate memory, we will limit the start address above the kernel. Signed-off-by: Tang Chen Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei Acked-by: Toshi Kani Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Taku Izumi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed