Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752034AbbF0CVV (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:21:21 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.65]:29421 "EHLO szxga02-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751017AbbF0CVR (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jun 2015 22:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: <558E084A.60900@huawei.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:19:54 +0800 From: Xishi Qiu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , "Luck, Tony" , Hanjun Guo , Xiexiuqi , , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Dave Hansen , Naoya Horiguchi , Vlastimil Babka , Mel Gorman CC: Xishi Qiu , Linux MM , LKML Subject: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/8] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.177.25.179] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2272 Lines: 57 Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 product family-based platforms introduces support for partial memory mirroring called as 'Address Range Mirroring'. This feature allows BIOS to specify a subset of total available memory to be mirrored (and optionally also specify whether to mirror the range 0-4 GB). This capability allows user to make an appropriate tradeoff between non-mirrored memory range and mirrored memory range thus optimizing total available memory and still achieving highly reliable memory range for mission critical workloads and/or kernel space. Tony has already send a patchset to supprot this feature at boot time. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/8/521 This patchset is based on Tony's, it can support the feature after boot time. Use mirrored memory for all kernel allocations. TBD: - Add compatibility with memory online/offline, memory compaction, CMA... - Need to discuss the implementation ideas, add a new zone or a new migratetype or others. V2: - Use memblock which marked MEMBLOCK_MIRROR to find mirrored memory instead of mirror_info. - Remove __GFP_MIRROR and /proc/sys/vm/mirrorable. - Use mirrored memory for all kernel allocations. Xishi Qiu (8): mm: add a new config to manage the code mm: introduce MIGRATE_MIRROR to manage the mirrored pages mm: find mirrored memory in memblock mm: add mirrored memory to buddy system mm: introduce a new zone_stat_item NR_FREE_MIRROR_PAGES mm: add free mirrored pages info mm: add the buddy system interface mm: add the PCP interface drivers/base/node.c | 17 ++++--- fs/proc/meminfo.c | 6 +++ include/linux/memblock.h | 29 ++++++++++-- include/linux/mmzone.h | 10 ++++ include/linux/vmstat.h | 2 + mm/Kconfig | 8 ++++ mm/memblock.c | 33 +++++++++++-- mm/nobootmem.c | 3 ++ mm/page_alloc.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++ 10 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) -- 2.0.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/