David Hildenbrand says:
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virtio-mem: s390 support
Let's finally add s390 support for virtio-mem; my last RFC was sent
4 years ago, and a lot changed in the meantime.
The latest QEMU series is available at [1], which contains some more
details and a usage example on s390 (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".
The last three 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 [2].
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 properly enter the "kdump mode" in the virtio-mem
driver
kdump support for virtio-mem memory on s390 will be sent out separately.
v2 -> v3
* "s390/kdump: make is_kdump_kernel() consistently return "true" in kdump
environments only"
-> Sent out separately [3]
* "s390/physmem_info: query diag500(STORAGE LIMIT) to support QEMU/KVM memory
devices"
-> No query function for diag500 for now.
-> Update comment above setup_ident_map_size().
-> Optimize/rewrite diag500_storage_limit() [Heiko]
-> Change handling in detect_physmem_online_ranges [Alexander]
-> Improve documentation.
* "s390/sparsemem: provide memory_add_physaddr_to_nid() with CONFIG_NUMA"
-> Added after testing on systems with CONFIG_NUMA=y
v1 -> v2:
* Document the new diag500 subfunction
* Use "s390" instead of "s390x" consistently
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20241008105455.
2302628-1-david@redhat.com
[2] https://virtio-mem.gitlab.io/user-guide/user-guide-linux.html
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/
20241023090651.
1115507-1-david@redhat.com
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241025141453.1210600-1-david@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>