mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Thu, 7 May 2020 14:01:32 +0000 (16:01 +0200)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Jun 2020 19:36:52 +0000 (15:36 -0400)
commit08b3acd7a68fc17902e1cb6b146389322840deab
treea97a406e124fe81ce4317a9ed7d31a3a80c24869
parent8e5c921ca0cd9aa59386e6be4b86b32f0ba7296b
mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce offline_and_remove_memory()

virtio-mem wants to offline and remove a memory block once it unplugged
all subblocks (e.g., using alloc_contig_range()). Let's provide
an interface to do that from a driver. virtio-mem already supports to
offline partially unplugged memory blocks. Offlining a fully unplugged
memory block will not require to migrate any pages. All unplugged
subblocks are PageOffline() and have a reference count of 0 - so
offlining code will simply skip them.

All we need is an interface to offline and remove the memory from kernel
module context, where we don't have access to the memory block devices
(esp. find_memory_block() and device_offline()) and the device hotplug
lock.

To keep things simple, allow to only work on a single memory block.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200507140139.17083-9-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
mm/memory_hotplug.c