Re: [PATCHv12 1/9] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 02:14:26AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> The patch implements #1 and #2 for now. #2 is the default. Some

s/This patch implements/Implement/

> workloads may want to use #1 with accept_memory=eager in kernel
> command line. #3 can be implemented later based on user's demands.

All this remaining text should not talk about what is being done
- that's in the diff - but why. Drop the "what" pls.

> Support of unaccepted memory requires a few changes in core-mm code:
> 
>   - memblock has to accept memory on allocation;
> 
>   - page allocator has to accept memory on the first allocation of the
>     page;
>
> Memblock change is trivial.
> 
> The page allocator is modified to accept pages. New memory gets accepted
> before putting pages on free lists. It is done lazily: only accept new
> pages when we run out of already accepted memory. The memory gets
> accepted until the high watermark is reached.
> 
> EFI code will provide two helpers if the platform supports unaccepted
> memory:
> 
>  - accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted.
> 
>  - range_contains_unaccepted_memory() checks anything within the range
>    of physical addresses requires acceptance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>	# memblock
> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
>  drivers/base/node.c    |   7 ++
>  fs/proc/meminfo.c      |   5 ++
>  include/linux/mm.h     |  19 +++++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h |   8 ++
>  mm/memblock.c          |   9 +++
>  mm/mm_init.c           |   7 ++
>  mm/page_alloc.c        | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/vmstat.c            |   3 +
>  8 files changed, 231 insertions(+)

Diff itself looks ok.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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