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-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig17
-rw-r--r--mm/memory_hotplug.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c3
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e79de2bd12cd..a0cd086df16b 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -654,3 +654,20 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on
processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd
finishes the initialisation.
+
+config ZONE_DEVICE
+ bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" if EXPERT
+ default !ZONE_DMA
+ depends on !ZONE_DMA
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+ depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
+
+ help
+ Device memory hotplug support allows for establishing pmem,
+ or other device driver discovered memory regions, in the
+ memmap. This allows pfn_to_page() lookups of otherwise
+ "device-physical" addresses which is needed for using a DAX
+ mapping in an O_DIRECT operation, among other things.
+
+ If FS_DAX is enabled, then say Y.
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 26fbba7d888f..24e4c76c951b 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -770,7 +770,10 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long phys_start_pfn,
start = phys_start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
size = nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
- ret = release_mem_region_adjustable(&iomem_resource, start, size);
+
+ /* in the ZONE_DEVICE case device driver owns the memory region */
+ if (!is_dev_zone(zone))
+ ret = release_mem_region_adjustable(&iomem_resource, start, size);
if (ret) {
resource_size_t endres = start + size - 1;
@@ -1207,8 +1210,13 @@ static int should_add_memory_movable(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
return 0;
}
-int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default)
+int zone_for_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, int zone_default,
+ bool for_device)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
+ if (for_device)
+ return ZONE_DEVICE;
+#endif
if (should_add_memory_movable(nid, start, size))
return ZONE_MOVABLE;
@@ -1249,7 +1257,7 @@ int __ref add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
}
/* call arch's memory hotadd */
- ret = arch_add_memory(nid, start, size);
+ ret = arch_add_memory(nid, start, size, false);
if (ret < 0)
goto error;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index ef19f22b2b7d..0f19b4e18233 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ static char * const zone_names[MAX_NR_ZONES] = {
"HighMem",
#endif
"Movable",
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
+ "Device",
+#endif
};
int min_free_kbytes = 1024;
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