mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory
authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:58:12 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:49:45 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
commita3f5bafcc04aaf62990e0cf3ced1cc6d8dc6fe95
treeadb288c0bf2cfbd6f40f0036f16a3a87f4f4ca06
parentfc6daaf93151877748f8096af6b3fddb147f22d6
mm/memblock: allocate boot time data structures from mirrored memory

Try to allocate all boot time kernel data structures from mirrored
memory.

If we run out of mirrored memory print warnings, but fall back to using
non-mirrored memory to make sure that we still boot.

By number of bytes, most of what we allocate at boot time is the page
structures.  64 bytes per 4K page on x86_64 ...  or about 1.5% of total
system memory.  For workloads where the bulk of memory is allocated to
applications this may represent a useful improvement to system
availability since 1.5% of total memory might be a third of the memory
allocated to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memblock.h
mm/memblock.c
mm/nobootmem.c