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Memory Hotplug
==============
Created: Jul 28 2007
Add description of notifier of memory hotplug Oct 11 2007
:Created: Jul 28 2007
:Updated: Add description of notifier of memory hotplug: Oct 11 2007
This document is about memory hotplug including how-to-use and current status.
Because Memory Hotplug is still under development, contents of this text will
be changed often.
1. Introduction
1.1 purpose of memory hotplug
1.2. Phases of memory hotplug
1.3. Unit of Memory online/offline operation
2. Kernel Configuration
3. sysfs files for memory hotplug
4. Physical memory hot-add phase
4.1 Hardware(Firmware) Support
4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand
5. Logical Memory hot-add phase
5.1. State of memory
5.2. How to online memory
6. Logical memory remove
6.1 Memory offline and ZONE_MOVABLE
6.2. How to offline memory
7. Physical memory remove
8. Memory hotplug event notifier
9. Future Work List
Note(1): x86_64's has special implementation for memory hotplug.
This text does not describe it.
Note(2): This text assumes that sysfs is mounted at /sys.
.. CONTENTS
1. Introduction
1.1 purpose of memory hotplug
1.2. Phases of memory hotplug
1.3. Unit of Memory online/offline operation
2. Kernel Configuration
3. sysfs files for memory hotplug
4. Physical memory hot-add phase
4.1 Hardware(Firmware) Support
4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand
5. Logical Memory hot-add phase
5.1. State of memory
5.2. How to online memory
6. Logical memory remove
6.1 Memory offline and ZONE_MOVABLE
6.2. How to offline memory
7. Physical memory remove
8. Memory hotplug event notifier
9. Future Work List
---------------
1. Introduction
---------------
1.1 purpose of memory hotplug
------------
.. note::
(1) x86_64's has special implementation for memory hotplug.
This text does not describe it.
(2) This text assumes that sysfs is mounted at /sys.
Introduction
============
purpose of memory hotplug
-------------------------
Memory Hotplug allows users to increase/decrease the amount of memory.
Generally, there are two purposes.
......@@ -53,9 +58,11 @@ hardware which supports memory power management.
Linux memory hotplug is designed for both purpose.
1.2. Phases of memory hotplug
---------------
There are 2 phases in Memory Hotplug.
Phases of memory hotplug
------------------------
There are 2 phases in Memory Hotplug:
1) Physical Memory Hotplug phase
2) Logical Memory Hotplug phase.
......@@ -70,7 +77,7 @@ management tables, and makes sysfs files for new memory's operation.
If firmware supports notification of connection of new memory to OS,
this phase is triggered automatically. ACPI can notify this event. If not,
"probe" operation by system administration is used instead.
(see Section 4.).
(see :ref:`memory_hotplug_physical_mem`).
Logical Memory Hotplug phase is to change memory state into
available/unavailable for users. Amount of memory from user's view is
......@@ -83,11 +90,12 @@ Logical Memory Hotplug phase is triggered by write of sysfs file by system
administrator. For the hot-add case, it must be executed after Physical Hotplug
phase by hand.
(However, if you writes udev's hotplug scripts for memory hotplug, these
phases can be execute in seamless way.)
phases can be execute in seamless way.)
Unit of Memory online/offline operation
---------------------------------------
1.3. Unit of Memory online/offline operation
------------
Memory hotplug uses SPARSEMEM memory model which allows memory to be divided
into chunks of the same size. These chunks are called "sections". The size of
a memory section is architecture dependent. For example, power uses 16MiB, ia64
......@@ -97,46 +105,50 @@ Memory sections are combined into chunks referred to as "memory blocks". The
size of a memory block is architecture dependent and represents the logical
unit upon which memory online/offline operations are to be performed. The
default size of a memory block is the same as memory section size unless an
architecture specifies otherwise. (see Section 3.)
architecture specifies otherwise. (see :ref:`memory_hotplug_sysfs_files`.)
To determine the size (in bytes) of a memory block please read this file:
/sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
-----------------------
2. Kernel Configuration
-----------------------
Kernel Configuration
====================
To use memory hotplug feature, kernel must be compiled with following
config options.
- For all memory hotplug
Memory model -> Sparse Memory (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
Allow for memory hot-add (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
- For all memory hotplug:
- Memory model -> Sparse Memory (CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)
- Allow for memory hot-add (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG)
- To enable memory removal, the following are also necessary
Allow for memory hot remove (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE)
Page Migration (CONFIG_MIGRATION)
- To enable memory removal, the following are also necessary:
- Allow for memory hot remove (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE)
- Page Migration (CONFIG_MIGRATION)
- For ACPI memory hotplug, the following are also necessary
Memory hotplug (under ACPI Support menu) (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY)
This option can be kernel module.
- For ACPI memory hotplug, the following are also necessary:
- Memory hotplug (under ACPI Support menu) (CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY)
- This option can be kernel module.
- As a related configuration, if your box has a feature of NUMA-node hotplug
via ACPI, then this option is necessary too.
ACPI0004,PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 Container Driver (under ACPI Support menu)
(CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER).
This option can be kernel module too.
- ACPI0004,PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 Container Driver (under ACPI Support menu)
(CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER).
This option can be kernel module too.
.. _memory_hotplug_sysfs_files:
sysfs files for memory hotplug
==============================
--------------------------------
3 sysfs files for memory hotplug
--------------------------------
All memory blocks have their device information in sysfs. Each memory block
is described under /sys/devices/system/memory as
is described under /sys/devices/system/memory as:
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX
(XXX is the memory block id.)
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX
(XXX is the memory block id.)
For the memory block covered by the sysfs directory. It is expected that all
memory sections in this range are present and no memory holes exist in the
......@@ -145,43 +157,53 @@ the existence of one should not affect the hotplug capabilities of the memory
block.
For example, assume 1GiB memory block size. A device for a memory starting at
0x100000000 is /sys/device/system/memory/memory4
(0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4)
0x100000000 is /sys/device/system/memory/memory4::
(0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4)
This device covers address range [0x100000000 ... 0x140000000)
Under each memory block, you can see 5 files:
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable
/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/valid_zones
- /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index
- /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device
- /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
- /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable
- /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/valid_zones
=================== ============================================================
``phys_index`` read-only and contains memory block id, same as XXX.
``state`` read-write
- at read: contains online/offline state of memory.
- at write: user can specify "online_kernel",
'phys_index' : read-only and contains memory block id, same as XXX.
'state' : read-write
at read: contains online/offline state of memory.
at write: user can specify "online_kernel",
"online_movable", "online", "offline" command
which will be performed on all sections in the block.
'phys_device' : read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory
``phys_device`` read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory
device. This is not well implemented now.
'removable' : read-only: contains an integer value indicating
``removable`` read-only: contains an integer value indicating
whether the memory block is removable or not
removable. A value of 1 indicates that the memory
block is removable and a value of 0 indicates that
it is not removable. A memory block is removable only if
every section in the block is removable.
'valid_zones' : read-only: designed to show which zones this memory block
``valid_zones`` read-only: designed to show which zones this memory block
can be onlined to.
The first column shows it's default zone.
The first column shows it`s default zone.
"memory6/valid_zones: Normal Movable" shows this memoryblock
can be onlined to ZONE_NORMAL by default and to ZONE_MOVABLE
by online_movable.
"memory7/valid_zones: Movable Normal" shows this memoryblock
can be onlined to ZONE_MOVABLE by default and to ZONE_NORMAL
by online_kernel.
=================== ============================================================
.. note::
NOTE:
These directories/files appear after physical memory hotplug phase.
If CONFIG_NUMA is enabled the memoryXXX/ directories can also be accessed
......@@ -193,13 +215,14 @@ For example:
A backlink will also be created:
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/node0 -> ../../node/node0
.. _memory_hotplug_physical_mem:
Physical memory hot-add phase
=============================
--------------------------------
4. Physical memory hot-add phase
--------------------------------
Hardware(Firmware) Support
--------------------------
4.1 Hardware(Firmware) Support
------------
On x86_64/ia64 platform, memory hotplug by ACPI is supported.
In general, the firmware (ACPI) which supports memory hotplug defines
......@@ -209,7 +232,8 @@ script. This will be done automatically.
But scripts for memory hotplug are not contained in generic udev package(now).
You may have to write it by yourself or online/offline memory by hand.
Please see "How to online memory", "How to offline memory" in this text.
Please see :ref:`memory_hotplug_how_to_online_memory` and
:ref:`memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory`.
If firmware supports NUMA-node hotplug, and defines an object _HID "ACPI0004",
"PNP0A05", or "PNP0A06", notification is asserted to it, and ACPI handler
......@@ -217,8 +241,9 @@ calls hotplug code for all of objects which are defined in it.
If memory device is found, memory hotplug code will be called.
4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand
------------
Notify memory hot-add event by hand
-----------------------------------
On some architectures, the firmware may not notify the kernel of a memory
hotplug event. Therefore, the memory "probe" interface is supported to
explicitly notify the kernel. This interface depends on
......@@ -229,45 +254,48 @@ notification.
Probe interface is located at
/sys/devices/system/memory/probe
You can tell the physical address of new memory to the kernel by
You can tell the physical address of new memory to the kernel by::
% echo start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
% echo start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
Then, [start_address_of_new_memory, start_address_of_new_memory +
memory_block_size] memory range is hot-added. In this case, hotplug script is
not called (in current implementation). You'll have to online memory by
yourself. Please see "How to online memory" in this text.
yourself. Please see :ref:`memory_hotplug_how_to_online_memory`.
------------------------------
5. Logical Memory hot-add phase
------------------------------
Logical Memory hot-add phase
============================
5.1. State of memory
------------
To see (online/offline) state of a memory block, read 'state' file.
State of memory
---------------
To see (online/offline) state of a memory block, read 'state' file::
% cat /sys/device/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
% cat /sys/device/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
- If the memory block is online, you'll read "online".
- If the memory block is offline, you'll read "offline".
If the memory block is online, you'll read "online".
If the memory block is offline, you'll read "offline".
.. _memory_hotplug_how_to_online_memory:
How to online memory
--------------------
5.2. How to online memory
------------
When the memory is hot-added, the kernel decides whether or not to "online"
it according to the policy which can be read from "auto_online_blocks" file:
it according to the policy which can be read from "auto_online_blocks" file::
% cat /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
% cat /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
The default depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
option. If it is disabled the default is "offline" which means the newly added
memory is not in a ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added
memory blocks manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online"
to "auto_online_blocks" file:
to "auto_online_blocks" file::
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
This sets a global policy and impacts all memory blocks that will subsequently
be hotplugged. Currently offline blocks keep their state. It is possible, under
......@@ -277,24 +305,26 @@ online. User space tools can check their "state" files
If the automatic onlining wasn't requested, failed, or some memory block was
offlined it is possible to change the individual block's state by writing to the
"state" file:
"state" file::
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
This onlining will not change the ZONE type of the target memory block,
If the memory block doesn't belong to any zone an appropriate kernel zone
(usually ZONE_NORMAL) will be used unless movable_node kernel command line
option is specified when ZONE_MOVABLE will be used.
You can explicitly request to associate it with ZONE_MOVABLE by
You can explicitly request to associate it with ZONE_MOVABLE by::
% echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
% echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
(NOTE: current limit: this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE)
.. note:: current limit: this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE
Or you can explicitly request a kernel zone (usually ZONE_NORMAL) by:
Or you can explicitly request a kernel zone (usually ZONE_NORMAL) by::
% echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
(NOTE: current limit: this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL)
% echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
.. note:: current limit: this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL
An explicit zone onlining can fail (e.g. when the range is already within
and existing and incompatible zone already).
......@@ -306,12 +336,12 @@ This may be changed in future.
------------------------
6. Logical memory remove
------------------------
Logical memory remove
=====================
Memory offline and ZONE_MOVABLE
-------------------------------
6.1 Memory offline and ZONE_MOVABLE
------------
Memory offlining is more complicated than memory online. Because memory offline
has to make the whole memory block be unused, memory offline can fail if
the memory block includes memory which cannot be freed.
......@@ -336,24 +366,27 @@ Assume the system has "TOTAL" amount of memory at boot time, this boot option
creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following.
1) When kernelcore=YYYY boot option is used,
Size of memory not for movable pages (not for offline) is YYYY.
Size of memory for movable pages (for offline) is TOTAL-YYYY.
Size of memory not for movable pages (not for offline) is YYYY.
Size of memory for movable pages (for offline) is TOTAL-YYYY.
2) When movablecore=ZZZZ boot option is used,
Size of memory not for movable pages (not for offline) is TOTAL - ZZZZ.
Size of memory for movable pages (for offline) is ZZZZ.
Size of memory not for movable pages (not for offline) is TOTAL - ZZZZ.
Size of memory for movable pages (for offline) is ZZZZ.
.. note::
Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs
to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD.
Note: Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs
to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD.
.. _memory_hotplug_how_to_offline_memory:
How to offline memory
---------------------
6.2. How to offline memory
------------
You can offline a memory block by using the same sysfs interface that was used
in memory onlining.
in memory onlining::
% echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
% echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
If offline succeeds, the state of the memory block is changed to be "offline".
If it fails, some error core (like -EBUSY) will be returned by the kernel.
......@@ -367,22 +400,22 @@ able to offline it (or not). (For example, a page is referred to by some kernel
internal call and released soon.)
Consideration:
Memory hotplug's design direction is to make the possibility of memory offlining
higher and to guarantee unplugging memory under any situation. But it needs
more work. Returning -EBUSY under some situation may be good because the user
can decide to retry more or not by himself. Currently, memory offlining code
does some amount of retry with 120 seconds timeout.
Memory hotplug's design direction is to make the possibility of memory
offlining higher and to guarantee unplugging memory under any situation. But
it needs more work. Returning -EBUSY under some situation may be good because
the user can decide to retry more or not by himself. Currently, memory
offlining code does some amount of retry with 120 seconds timeout.
Physical memory remove
======================
-------------------------
7. Physical memory remove
-------------------------
Need more implementation yet....
- Notification completion of remove works by OS to firmware.
- Guard from remove if not yet.
--------------------------------
8. Memory hotplug event notifier
--------------------------------
Memory hotplug event notifier
=============================
Hotplugging events are sent to a notification queue.
There are six types of notification defined in include/linux/memory.h:
......@@ -412,14 +445,14 @@ MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE
MEM_OFFLINE
Generated after offlining memory is complete.
A callback routine can be registered by calling
A callback routine can be registered by calling::
hotplug_memory_notifier(callback_func, priority)
Callback functions with higher values of priority are called before callback
functions with lower values.
A callback function must have the following prototype:
A callback function must have the following prototype::
int callback_func(
struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *arg);
......@@ -427,27 +460,28 @@ A callback function must have the following prototype:
The first argument of the callback function (self) is a pointer to the block
of the notifier chain that points to the callback function itself.
The second argument (action) is one of the event types described above.
The third argument (arg) passes a pointer of struct memory_notify.
struct memory_notify {
unsigned long start_pfn;
unsigned long nr_pages;
int status_change_nid_normal;
int status_change_nid_high;
int status_change_nid;
}
start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory.
status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask
is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
status_change_nid_high is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask
is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
status_change_nid is set node id when N_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be)
set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a
node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
If status_changed_nid* >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the
node if necessary.
The third argument (arg) passes a pointer of struct memory_notify::
struct memory_notify {
unsigned long start_pfn;
unsigned long nr_pages;
int status_change_nid_normal;
int status_change_nid_high;
int status_change_nid;
}
- start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
- nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory.
- status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask
is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
- status_change_nid_high is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask
is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
- status_change_nid is set node id when N_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be)
set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a
node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
If status_changed_nid* >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the
node if necessary.
The callback routine shall return one of the values
NOTIFY_DONE, NOTIFY_OK, NOTIFY_BAD, NOTIFY_STOP
......@@ -461,9 +495,9 @@ further processing of the notification queue.
NOTIFY_STOP stops further processing of the notification queue.
--------------
9. Future Work
--------------
Future Work
===========
- allowing memory hot-add to ZONE_MOVABLE. maybe we need some switch like
sysctl or new control file.
- showing memory block and physical device relationship.
......@@ -471,4 +505,3 @@ NOTIFY_STOP stops further processing of the notification queue.
- support HugeTLB page migration and offlining.
- memmap removing at memory offline.
- physical remove memory.
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