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authorWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>2013-02-22 16:33:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 17:50:12 -0800
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memory-hotplug: common APIs to support page tables hot-remove
When memory is removed, the corresponding pagetables should alse be removed. This patch introduces some common APIs to support vmemmap pagetable and x86_64 architecture direct mapping pagetable removing. All pages of virtual mapping in removed memory cannot be freed if some pages used as PGD/PUD include not only removed memory but also other memory. So this patch uses the following way to check whether a page can be freed or not. 1) When removing memory, the page structs of the removed memory are filled with 0FD. 2) All page structs are filled with 0xFD on PT/PMD, PT/PMD can be cleared. In this case, the page used as PT/PMD can be freed. For direct mapping pages, update direct_pages_count[level] when we freed their pagetables. And do not free the pages again because they were freed when offlining. For vmemmap pages, free the pages and their pagetables. For larger pages, do not split them into smaller ones because there is no way to know if the larger page has been split. As a result, there is no way to decide when to split. We deal the larger pages in the following way: 1) For direct mapped pages, all the pages were freed when they were offlined. And since menmory offline is done section by section, all the memory ranges being removed are aligned to PAGE_SIZE. So only need to deal with unaligned pages when freeing vmemmap pages. 2) For vmemmap pages being used to store page_struct, if part of the larger page is still in use, just fill the unused part with 0xFD. And when the whole page is fulfilled with 0xFD, then free the larger page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment] [tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: do not calculate direct mapping pages when freeing vmemmap pagetables] [tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: do not free direct mapping pages twice] [tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: do not free page split from hugepage one by one] [tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: do not split pages when freeing pagetable pages] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use pmd_page_vaddr()] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-uninitialised bug] Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 3cd16ba82f15..cdc3bab01832 100644
--- a/include/linux/bootmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ extern void free_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat,
unsigned long size);
extern void free_bootmem(unsigned long physaddr, unsigned long size);
extern void free_bootmem_late(unsigned long physaddr, unsigned long size);
+extern void __free_pages_bootmem(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
/*
* Flags for reserve_bootmem (also if CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE,