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mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sun, 9 Aug 2015 19:29:06 +0000 (15:29 -0400)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:40:58 +0000 (19:40 -0400)
commit13245c21d96954b1936118b0ea9a14f8e1c9a8bb
treed0b9e418ab4f1df15435c098edf5ad687b426b3f
parent52503d8077cb0e4c0ffb96cdc1ed673b701448d7
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>
12 files changed:
arch/ia64/mm/init.c
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
arch/s390/mm/init.c
arch/sh/mm/init.c
arch/tile/mm/init.c
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/Kconfig
mm/memory_hotplug.c
mm/page_alloc.c