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<title>Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2024-09-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-09-01T21:43:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-01T21:43:08Z</published>
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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - x2apic_disable() clears x2apic_state and x2apic_mode unconditionally,
   even when the state is X2APIC_ON_LOCKED, which prevents the kernel to
   disable it thereby creating inconsistent state.

   Reorder the logic so it actually works correctly

 - The XSTATE logic for handling LBR is incorrect as it assumes that
   XSAVES supports LBR when the CPU supports LBR. In fact both
   conditions need to be true. Otherwise the enablement of LBR in the
   IA32_XSS MSR fails and subsequently the machine crashes on the next
   XRSTORS operation because IA32_XSS is not initialized.

   Cache the XSTATE support bit during init and make the related
   functions use this cached information and the LBR CPU feature bit to
   cure this.

 - Cure a long standing bug in KASLR

   KASLR uses the full address space between PAGE_OFFSET and vaddr_end
   to randomize the starting points of the direct map, vmalloc and
   vmemmap regions. It thereby limits the size of the direct map by
   using the installed memory size plus an extra configurable margin for
   hot-plug memory. This limitation is done to gain more randomization
   space because otherwise only the holes between the direct map,
   vmalloc, vmemmap and vaddr_end would be usable for randomizing.

   The limited direct map size is not exposed to the rest of the kernel,
   so the memory hot-plug and resource management related code paths
   still operate under the assumption that the available address space
   can be determined with MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.

   request_free_mem_region() allocates from (1 &lt;&lt; MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1
   downwards. That means the first allocation happens past the end of
   the direct map and if unlucky this address is in the vmalloc space,
   which causes high_memory to become greater than VMALLOC_START and
   consequently causes iounmap() to fail for valid ioremap addresses.

   Cure this by exposing the end of the direct map via PHYSMEM_END and
   use that for the memory hot-plug and resource management related
   places instead of relying on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. In the KASLR case
   PHYSMEM_END maps to a variable which is initialized by the KASLR
   initialization and otherwise it is based on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS as
   before.

 - Prevent a data leak in mmio_read(). The TDVMCALL exposes the value of
   an initialized variabled on the stack to the VMM. The variable is
   only required as output value, so it does not have to exposed to the
   VMM in the first place.

 - Prevent an array overrun in the resource control code on systems with
   Sub-NUMA Clustering enabled because the code failed to adjust the
   index by the number of SNC nodes per L3 cache.

* tag 'x86-urgent-2024-09-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/resctrl: Fix arch_mbm_* array overrun on SNC
  x86/tdx: Fix data leak in mmio_read()
  x86/kaslr: Expose and use the end of the physical memory address space
  x86/fpu: Avoid writing LBR bit to IA32_XSS unless supported
  x86/apic: Make x2apic_disable() work correctly
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<entry>
<title>x86/kaslr: Expose and use the end of the physical memory address space</title>
<updated>2024-08-20T11:44:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-13T22:29:36Z</published>
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iounmap() on x86 occasionally fails to unmap because the provided valid
ioremap address is not below high_memory. It turned out that this
happens due to KASLR.

KASLR uses the full address space between PAGE_OFFSET and vaddr_end to
randomize the starting points of the direct map, vmalloc and vmemmap
regions.  It thereby limits the size of the direct map by using the
installed memory size plus an extra configurable margin for hot-plug
memory.  This limitation is done to gain more randomization space
because otherwise only the holes between the direct map, vmalloc,
vmemmap and vaddr_end would be usable for randomizing.

The limited direct map size is not exposed to the rest of the kernel, so
the memory hot-plug and resource management related code paths still
operate under the assumption that the available address space can be
determined with MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS.

request_free_mem_region() allocates from (1 &lt;&lt; MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) - 1
downwards.  That means the first allocation happens past the end of the
direct map and if unlucky this address is in the vmalloc space, which
causes high_memory to become greater than VMALLOC_START and consequently
causes iounmap() to fail for valid ioremap addresses.

MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS cannot be changed for that because the randomization
does not align with address bit boundaries and there are other places
which actually require to know the maximum number of address bits.  All
remaining usage sites of MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS have been analyzed and found
to be correct.

Cure this by exposing the end of the direct map via PHYSMEM_END and use
that for the memory hot-plug and resource management related places
instead of relying on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS. In the KASLR case PHYSMEM_END
maps to a variable which is initialized by the KASLR initialization and
otherwise it is based on MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS as before.

To prevent future hickups add a check into add_pages() to catch callers
trying to add memory above PHYSMEM_END.

Fixes: 0483e1fa6e09 ("x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions")
Reported-by: Max Ramanouski &lt;max8rr8@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-By: Max Ramanouski &lt;max8rr8@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple &lt;apopple@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87ed6soy3z.ffs@tglx
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<entry>
<title>mm: don't account memmap per-node</title>
<updated>2024-08-16T05:16:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Pasha Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@soleen.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-08T21:34:36Z</published>
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Fix invalid access to pgdat during hot-remove operation:
ndctl users reported a GPF when trying to destroy a namespace:
$ ndctl destroy-namespace all -r all -f
 Segmentation fault
 dmesg:
 Oops: general protection fault, probably for
 non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000005650: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
 PTI
 KASAN: probably user-memory-access in range
 [0x000000000002b280-0x000000000002b287]
 CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 1868 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 6.11.0-rc1 #1
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R640/08HT8T, BIOS
 2.20.1 09/13/2023
 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x2a/0x110

cxl-test users report a GPF when trying to unload the test module:
$ modrpobe -r cxl-test
 dmesg
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000004200
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1076 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G O N 6.11.0-rc1 #197
 Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [N]=TEST
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/15
 RIP: 0010:mod_node_page_state+0x6/0x90

Currently, when memory is hot-plugged or hot-removed the accounting is
done based on the assumption that memmap is allocated from the same node
as the hot-plugged/hot-removed memory, which is not always the case.

In addition, there are challenges with keeping the node id of the memory
that is being remove to the time when memmap accounting is actually
performed: since this is done after remove_pfn_range_from_zone(), and
also after remove_memory_block_devices(). Meaning that we cannot use
pgdat nor walking though memblocks to get the nid.

Given all of that, account the memmap overhead system wide instead.

For this we are going to be using global atomic counters, but given that
memmap size is rarely modified, and normally is only modified either
during early boot when there is only one CPU, or under a hotplug global
mutex lock, therefore there is no need for per-cpu optimizations.

Also, while we are here rename nr_memmap to nr_memmap_pages, and
nr_memmap_boot to nr_memmap_boot_pages to be self explanatory that the
units are in page count.

[pasha.tatashin@soleen.com: address a few nits from David Hildenbrand]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240809191020.1142142-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240808213437.682006-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Reported-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/CAHj4cs9Ax1=CoJkgBGP_+sNu6-6=6v=_L-ZBZY0bVLD3wUWZQg@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Zq0tPd2h6alFz8XF@aschofie-mobl2/#t
Tested-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo &lt;cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Fan Ni &lt;fan.ni@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Nhat Pham &lt;nphamcs@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sourav Panda &lt;souravpanda@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/sparse: nr_pages won't be 0</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T02:30:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richard.weiyang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-19T01:06:09Z</published>
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Function subsection_map_init() is only used in free_area_init() in the
loop of for_each_mem_pfn_range().  And we are sure in each iteration of
for_each_mem_pfn_range(), start_pfn &lt; end_pfn.

So nr_pages is not possible to be 0 and we can remove the check.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240619010612.20740-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm: report per-page metadata information</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T02:30:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sourav Panda</name>
<email>souravpanda@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-05T22:27:51Z</published>
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Today, we do not have any observability of per-page metadata and how much
it takes away from the machine capacity.  Thus, we want to describe the
amount of memory that is going towards per-page metadata, which can vary
depending on build configuration, machine architecture, and system use.

This patch adds 2 fields to /proc/vmstat that can used as shown below:

Accounting per-page metadata allocated by boot-allocator:
	/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot * PAGE_SIZE

Accounting per-page metadata allocated by buddy-allocator:
	/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap * PAGE_SIZE

Accounting total Perpage metadata allocated on the machine:
	(/proc/vmstat:nr_memmap_boot +
	 /proc/vmstat:nr_memmap) * PAGE_SIZE

Utility for userspace:

Observability: Describe the amount of memory overhead that is going to
per-page metadata on the system at any given time since this overhead is
not currently observable.

Debugging: Tracking the changes or absolute value in struct pages can help
detect anomalies as they can be correlated with other metrics in the
machine (e.g., memtotal, number of huge pages, etc).

page_ext overheads: Some kernel features such as page_owner
page_table_check that use page_ext can be optionally enabled via kernel
parameters.  Having the total per-page metadata information helps users
precisely measure impact.  Furthermore, page-metadata metrics will reflect
the amount of struct pages reliquished (or overhead reduced) when
hugetlbfs pages are reserved which will vary depending on whether hugetlb
vmemmap optimization is enabled or not.

For background and results see:
lore.kernel.org/all/20240220214558.3377482-1-souravpanda@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240605222751.1406125-1-souravpanda@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda &lt;souravpanda@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Linxuan &lt;chenlinxuan@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ivan Babrou &lt;ivan@cloudflare.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tomas Mudrunka &lt;tomas.mudrunka@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wei Xu &lt;weixugc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Yang Yang &lt;yang.yang29@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Yosry Ahmed &lt;yosryahmed@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>mm/sparse: use MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE enum instead of 0</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T02:30:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Leesoo Ahn</name>
<email>lsahn@ooseel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-10T15:15:28Z</published>
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Setting 'limit' variable to 0 might seem like it means "no limit".  But in
the memblock API, 0 actually means the 'MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE' enum,
which limits the physical address range end based on
'memblock.current_limit'.  This could be confusing.

Use the enum instead of 0 to make it clear.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240610151528.943680-1-lsahn@wewakecorp.com
Signed-off-by: Leesoo Ahn &lt;lsahn@ooseel.net&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: sparse: consistently use _nr</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T02:30:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dev Jain</name>
<email>dev.jain@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-31T12:41:44Z</published>
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Consistently name the return variable with an _nr suffix, whenever calling
pfn_to_section_nr(), to avoid confusion with a (struct mem_section *).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240531124144.240399-1-dev.jain@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain &lt;dev.jain@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/sparse: guard the size of mem_section is power of 2</title>
<updated>2024-05-06T00:53:40Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richard.weiyang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-16T01:25:59Z</published>
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We usually have this check, while commit 2a3cb8baef71 ("mm/sparse: delete
old sparse_init and enable new one") missed to take it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240416012559.4536-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: move array mem_section init code out of memory_present()</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:56:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Baoquan He</name>
<email>bhe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T06:11:27Z</published>
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Patch series "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

These are all observed when going through code flow during mm init.


This patch (of 7):

When CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is enabled, mem_section need be initialized
to point at a two-dimensional array, and its 1st dimension of length
NR_SECTION_ROOTS will be dynamically allocated.  Once the allocation is
done, it's available for all nodes.

So take the 1st dimension of mem_section initialization out of
memory_present()(), and put it into memblocks_present() which is a more
appripriate place.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326061134.1055295-1-bhe@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326061134.1055295-2-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/memory_hotplug: introduce MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE notifiers</title>
<updated>2024-02-22T00:00:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sumanth Korikkar</name>
<email>sumanthk@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T13:27:43Z</published>
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Patch series "implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".

This series provides "memmap on memory" support on s390 platform.  "memmap
on memory" allows struct pages array to be allocated from the hotplugged
memory range instead of allocating it from main system memory.

s390 currently preallocates struct pages array for all potentially
possible memory, which ensures memory onlining always succeeds, but with
the cost of significant memory consumption from the available system
memory during boottime.  In certain extreme configuration, this could lead
to ipl failure.

"memmap on memory" ensures struct pages array are populated from self
contained hotplugged memory range instead of depleting the available
system memory and this could eliminate ipl failure on s390 platform.

On other platforms, system might go OOM when the physically hotplugged
memory depletes the available memory before it is onlined.  Hence, "memmap
on memory" feature was introduced as described in commit a08a2ae34613
("mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range").

Unlike other architectures, s390 memory blocks are not physically
accessible until it is online.  To make it physically accessible two new
memory notifiers MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE / MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE are added and
this notifier lets the hypervisor inform that the memory should be made
physically accessible.  This allows for "memmap on memory" initialization
during memory hotplug onlining phase, which is performed before calling
MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier.

Patch 1 introduces MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers
to prepare the transition of memory to and from a physically accessible
state.  New mhp_flag MHP_OFFLINE_INACCESSIBLE is introduced to ensure
altmap cannot be written when adding memory - before it is set online. 
This enhancement is crucial for implementing the "memmap on memory"
feature for s390 in a subsequent patch.

Patches 2 allocates vmemmap pages from self-contained memory range for
s390.  It allocates memory map (struct pages array) from the hotplugged
memory range, rather than using system memory by passing altmap to vmemmap
functions.

Patch 3 removes unhandled memory notifier types on s390.

Patch 4 implements MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers
on s390.  MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE memory notifier makes memory block physical
accessible via sclp assign command.  The notifier ensures self-contained
memory maps are accessible and hence enabling the "memmap on memory" on
s390.  MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifier shifts the memory block to an
inaccessible state via sclp unassign command.

Patch 5 finally enables MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY on s390.


This patch (of 5):

Introduce MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE/MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE memory notifiers to
prepare the transition of memory to and from a physically accessible
state.  This enhancement is crucial for implementing the "memmap on
memory" feature for s390 in a subsequent patch.

Platforms such as x86 can support physical memory hotplug via ACPI.  When
there is physical memory hotplug, ACPI event leads to the memory addition
with the following callchain:

acpi_memory_device_add()
  -&gt; acpi_memory_enable_device()
     -&gt; __add_memory()

After this, the hotplugged memory is physically accessible, and altmap
support prepared, before the "memmap on memory" initialization in
memory_block_online() is called.

On s390, memory hotplug works in a different way.  The available hotplug
memory has to be defined upfront in the hypervisor, but it is made
physically accessible only when the user sets it online via sysfs,
currently in the MEM_GOING_ONLINE notifier.  This is too late and "memmap
on memory" initialization is performed before calling MEM_GOING_ONLINE
notifier.

During the memory hotplug addition phase, altmap support is prepared and
during the memory onlining phase s390 requires memory to be physically
accessible and then subsequently initiate the "memmap on memory"
initialization process.

The memory provider will handle new MEM_PREPARE_ONLINE /
MEM_FINISH_OFFLINE notifications and make the memory accessible.

The mhp_flag MHP_OFFLINE_INACCESSIBLE is introduced and is relevant when
used along with MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY, because the altmap cannot be written
(e.g., poisoned) when adding memory -- before it is set online.  This
allows for adding memory with an altmap that is not currently made
available by a hypervisor.  When onlining that memory, the hypervisor can
be instructed to make that memory accessible via the new notifiers and the
onlining phase will not require any memory allocations, which is helpful
in low-memory situations.

All architectures ignore unknown memory notifiers.  Therefore, the
introduction of these new notifiers does not result in any functional
modifications across architectures.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240108132747.3238763-1-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240108132747.3238763-2-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar &lt;sumanthk@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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