Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] virtio-mem: s390x support

[Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>]

This series has been successfully tested along with the QEMU's series.
Virtio-mem devices could be resized, plugged and unplugged seamlessly.
The memory information displayed is correct and reboot doesn't cause
any issue.

Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 9:16 PM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Let's finally add s390x support for virtio-mem; my last RFC was sent
> 4 years ago, and a lot changed in the meantime.
>
> This is based on mm/stable.
>
> I sent out the QEMU part earlier today [1], that contains some more details
> and a usage example on s390x (last patch).
>
> There is not too much in here: The biggest part is querying a new diag(500)
> STORAGE_LIMIT hypercall to obtain the proper "max_physmem_end". Once this
> and the QEMU part will go upstream, it will get documented in [2]
>
> The last two patches are not strictly required but certainly nice-to-have.
>
> Note that -- in contrast to standby memory -- virtio-mem memory must be
> configured to be automatically onlined as soon as hotplugged. The easiest
> approach is using the "memhp_default_state=" kernel parameter or by using
> proper udev rules. More details can be found at [3].
>
> I have reviving+upstreaming a systemd service to handle configuring
> that on my todo list, but for some reason I keep getting distracted ...
>
> I tested various things, including:
>  * Various memory hotplug/hotunplug combinations
>  * Device hotplug/hotunplug
>  * /proc/iomem output
>  * reboot
>  * kexec
>  * kdump: make sure we don't hotplug memory
>
> One remaining work item is kdump support for virtio-mem memory. I
> am working on a prototype that will be fairly straight forward,
> because the virtio-mem driver already supports a special kdump mode and
> dracut will already include it in the initrd as default. With
> holiday and conferences coming up I rather sent this out now.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240910175809.2135596-1-david@redhat.com
> [2] https://gitlab.com/davidhildenbrand/s390x-os-virt-spec
> [3] https://virtio-mem.gitlab.io/user-guide/user-guide-linux.html
>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Cc: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: "Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> David Hildenbrand (5):
>   s390/kdump: implement is_kdump_kernel()
>   s390/physmem_info: query diag500(STORAGE_LIMIT) to support QEMU/KVM
>     memory devices
>   virtio-mem: s390x support
>   lib/Kconfig.debug: default STRICT_DEVMEM to "y" on s390x
>   s390/sparsemem: reduce section size to 128 MiB
>
>  arch/s390/boot/physmem_info.c        | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/s390/include/asm/kexec.h        |  4 +++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/physmem_info.h |  3 ++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/sparsemem.h    |  2 +-
>  arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c        |  6 ++++
>  drivers/virtio/Kconfig               | 12 ++++----
>  lib/Kconfig.debug                    |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.46.0
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