arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove
The arch code for hot-remove must tear down portions of the linear map and
vmemmap corresponding to memory being removed. In both cases the page
tables mapping these regions must be freed, and when sparse vmemmap is in
use the memory backing the vmemmap must also be freed.
This patch adds unmap_hotplug_range() and free_empty_tables() helpers which
can be used to tear down either region and calls it from vmemmap_free() and
___remove_pgd_mapping(). The free_mapped argument determines whether the
backing memory will be freed.
It makes two distinct passes over the kernel page table. In the first pass
with unmap_hotplug_range() it unmaps, invalidates applicable TLB cache and
frees backing memory if required (vmemmap) for each mapped leaf entry. In
the second pass with free_empty_tables() it looks for empty page table
sections whose page table page can be unmapped, TLB invalidated and freed.
While freeing intermediate level page table pages bail out if any of its
entries are still valid. This can happen for partially filled kernel page
table either from a previously attempted failed memory hot add or while
removing an address range which does not span the entire page table page
range.
The vmemmap region may share levels of table with the vmalloc region.
There can be conflicts between hot remove freeing page table pages with
a concurrent vmalloc() walking the kernel page table. This conflict can
not just be solved by taking the init_mm ptl because of existing locking
scheme in vmalloc(). So free_empty_tables() implements a floor and ceiling
method which is borrowed from user page table tear with free_pgd_range()
which skips freeing page table pages if intermediate address range is not
aligned or maximum floor-ceiling might not own the entire page table page.
Boot memory on arm64 cannot be removed. Hence this registers a new memory
hotplug notifier which prevents boot memory offlining and it's removal.
While here update arch_add_memory() to handle __add_pages() failures by
just unmapping recently added kernel linear mapping. Now enable memory hot
remove on arm64 platforms by default with ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE.
This implementation is overall inspired from kernel page table tear down
procedure on X86 architecture and user page table tear down method.
[Mike and Catalin added P4D page table level support]
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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