On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 10:50:21PM +0800, Huaisheng Ye wrote: > Traditionally, NVDIMMs are treated by mm(memory management) subsystem as > DEVICE zone, which is a virtual zone and both its start and end of pfn > are equal to 0, mm wouldn’t manage NVDIMM directly as DRAM, kernel uses > corresponding drivers, which locate at \drivers\nvdimm\ and > \drivers\acpi\nfit and fs, to realize NVDIMM memory alloc and free with > memory hot plug implementation.
You probably want to let linux-nvdimm know about this patch set. Adding to the cc. Also, I only received patch 0 and 4. What happened to 1-3,5 and 6? > With current kernel, many mm’s classical features like the buddy > system, swap mechanism and page cache couldn’t be supported to NVDIMM. > What we are doing is to expand kernel mm’s capacity to make it to handle > NVDIMM like DRAM. Furthermore we make mm could treat DRAM and NVDIMM > separately, that means mm can only put the critical pages to NVDIMM > zone, here we created a new zone type as NVM zone. That is to say for > traditional(or normal) pages which would be stored at DRAM scope like > Normal, DMA32 and DMA zones. But for the critical pages, which we hope > them could be recovered from power fail or system crash, we make them > to be persistent by storing them to NVM zone. > > We installed two NVDIMMs to Lenovo Thinksystem product as development > platform, which has 125GB storage capacity respectively. With these > patches below, mm can create NVM zones for NVDIMMs. > > Here is dmesg info, > Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000237fffffff] > On node 0 totalpages: 36879666 > DMA zone: 64 pages used for memmap > DMA zone: 23 pages reserved > DMA zone: 3999 pages, LIFO batch:0 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 0 pfns 1 -> 4096 > DMA32 zone: 10935 pages used for memmap > DMA32 zone: 699795 pages, LIFO batch:31 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 1 pfns 4096 -> 1048576 > Normal zone: 53248 pages used for memmap > Normal zone: 3407872 pages, LIFO batch:31 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 2 pfns 1048576 -> 4456448 > NVM zone: 512000 pages used for memmap > NVM zone: 32768000 pages, LIFO batch:31 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 0 zone 3 pfns 4456448 -> 37224448 > Initmem setup node 1 [mem 0x0000002380000000-0x00000046bfffffff] > On node 1 totalpages: 36962304 > Normal zone: 65536 pages used for memmap > Normal zone: 4194304 pages, LIFO batch:31 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 1 zone 2 pfns 37224448 -> 41418752 > NVM zone: 512000 pages used for memmap > NVM zone: 32768000 pages, LIFO batch:31 > mminit::memmap_init Initialising map node 1 zone 3 pfns 41418752 -> 74186752 > > This comes /proc/zoneinfo > Node 0, zone NVM > pages free 32768000 > min 15244 > low 48012 > high 80780 > spanned 32768000 > present 32768000 > managed 32768000 > protection: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) > nr_free_pages 32768000 > Node 1, zone NVM > pages free 32768000 > min 15244 > low 48012 > high 80780 > spanned 32768000 > present 32768000 > managed 32768000 > > Huaisheng Ye (6): > mm/memblock: Expand definition of flags to support NVDIMM > mm/page_alloc.c: get pfn range with flags of memblock > mm, zone_type: create ZONE_NVM and fill into GFP_ZONE_TABLE > arch/x86/kernel: mark NVDIMM regions from e820_table > mm: get zone spanned pages separately for DRAM and NVDIMM > arch/x86/mm: create page table mapping for DRAM and NVDIMM both > > arch/x86/include/asm/e820/api.h | 3 +++ > arch/x86/kernel/e820.c | 20 +++++++++++++- > arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 8 ++++++ > arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 16 +++++++++++ > include/linux/gfp.h | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > include/linux/memblock.h | 19 +++++++++++++ > include/linux/mm.h | 4 +++ > include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 +++ > mm/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++++ > mm/memblock.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > mm/nobootmem.c | 5 ++-- > mm/page_alloc.c | 60 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 12 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.8.3.1 > _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
