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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-08-09 15:29:06 -0400
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2015-08-27 19:40:58 -0400
commit033fbae988fcb67e5077203512181890848b8e90 (patch)
treed0b9e418ab4f1df15435c098edf5ad687b426b3f /arch/ia64/mm
parent012dcef3f058385268630c0003e9b7f8dcafbeb4 (diff)
mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
While pmem is usable as a block device or via DAX mappings to userspace there are several usage scenarios that can not target pmem due to its lack of struct page coverage. In preparation for "hot plugging" pmem into the vmemmap add ZONE_DEVICE as a new zone to tag these pages separately from the ones that are subject to standard page allocations. Importantly "device memory" can be removed at will by userspace unbinding the driver of the device. Having a separate zone prevents allocation and otherwise marks these pages that are distinct from typical uniform memory. Device memory has different lifetime and performance characteristics than RAM. However, since we have run out of ZONES_SHIFT bits this functionality currently depends on sacrificing ZONE_DMA. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Jerome Glisse <j.glisse@gmail.com> [hch: various simplifications in the arch interface] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/mm/init.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
index 97e48b0eefc7..1841ef69183d 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/mm/init.c
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ mem_init (void)
645} 645}
646 646
647#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 647#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
648int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) 648int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size, bool for_device)
649{ 649{
650 pg_data_t *pgdat; 650 pg_data_t *pgdat;
651 struct zone *zone; 651 struct zone *zone;
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
656 pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); 656 pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
657 657
658 zone = pgdat->node_zones + 658 zone = pgdat->node_zones +
659 zone_for_memory(nid, start, size, ZONE_NORMAL); 659 zone_for_memory(nid, start, size, ZONE_NORMAL, for_device);
660 ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages); 660 ret = __add_pages(nid, zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
661 661
662 if (ret) 662 if (ret)