memory unplug: page offline

Logic.
 - set all pages in  [start,end)  as isolated migration-type.
   by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use.
 - Migrate all LRU pages in the range.
 - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not.

Todo:
 - allocate migration destination page from better area.
 - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed..
 (I don't like this kind of page but..
 - Find out pages which cannot be migrated.
 - more running tests.
 - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index b06730668412..1cc6cada2bbf 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -139,6 +139,11 @@ config MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE
         def_bool y
         depends on SPARSEMEM && MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 
+config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+        bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
+        depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG && ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+        depends on MIGRATION
+
 # Heavily threaded applications may benefit from splitting the mm-wide
 # page_table_lock, so that faults on different parts of the user address
 # space can be handled with less contention: split it at this NR_CPUS.