Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:48:04AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 10.08.21 08:26, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces concept of memory acceptance:
> > Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP,
> > requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest.
> > Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtrual Machine
> > platform.
> > 
> > Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the
> > accepted guest physical address range. It's better to postpone memory
> > acceptation until memory is needed. It lowers boot time and reduces
> > memory overhead.
> > 
> > Support of such memory requires few changes in core-mm code:
> > 
> >    - memblock has to accept memory on allocation;
> > 
> >    - page allocator has to accept memory on the first allocation of the
> >      page;
> > 
> > Memblock change is trivial.
> > 
> > Page allocator is modified to accept pages on the first allocation.
> > PageOffline() is used to indicate that the page requires acceptance.
> > The flag currently used by hotplug and balloon. Such pages are not
> > available to page allocator.
> > 
> > An architecture has to provide three helpers if it wants to support
> > unaccepted memory:
> > 
> >   - accept_memory() makes a range of physical addresses accepted.
> > 
> >   - maybe_set_page_offline() marks a page PageOffline() if it requires
> >     acceptance. Used during boot to put pages on free lists.
> > 
> >   - clear_page_offline() clears makes a page accepted and clears
> >     PageOffline().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   mm/internal.h   | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >   mm/memblock.c   |  1 +
> >   mm/page_alloc.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >   3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> > index 31ff935b2547..d2fc8a17fbe0 100644
> > --- a/mm/internal.h
> > +++ b/mm/internal.h
> > @@ -662,4 +662,18 @@ void vunmap_range_noflush(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
> >   int numa_migrate_prep(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >   		      unsigned long addr, int page_nid, int *flags);
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
> > +static inline void maybe_set_page_offline(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void clear_page_offline(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void accept_memory(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> > +{
> > +}
> 
> Can we find better fitting names for the first two? The function names are
> way too generic. For example:
> 
> accept_or_set_page_offline()
> 
> accept_and_clear_page_offline()

Sounds good.

> I thought for a second if
> 	PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Unaccepted, offline)
> makes sense as well, not sure.

I find Offline fitting the situation. Don't see a reason to add more
terminology here.

> Also, please update the description of PageOffline in page-flags.h to
> include the additional usage with PageBuddy set at the same time.

Okay.

> I assume you don't have to worry about page_offline_freeze/thaw ... as we
> only set PageOffline initially, but not later at runtime when other
> subsystems (/proc/kcore) might stumble over it.

I think so, but I would need to look at this code once again.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov