From a3f5bafcc04aaf62990e0cf3ced1cc6d8dc6fe95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Luck Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:58:12 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Xishi Qiu Cc: Hanjun Guo Cc: Xiexiuqi Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/nobootmem.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/nobootmem.c') diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c index ad3641dcdbe7..5258386fa1be 100644 --- a/mm/nobootmem.c +++ b/mm/nobootmem.c @@ -37,12 +37,20 @@ static void * __init __alloc_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align, { void *ptr; u64 addr; + ulong flags = choose_memblock_flags(); if (limit > memblock.current_limit) limit = memblock.current_limit; +again: addr = memblock_find_in_range_node(size, align, goal, limit, nid, - MEMBLOCK_NONE); + flags); + if (!addr && (flags & MEMBLOCK_MIRROR)) { + flags &= ~MEMBLOCK_MIRROR; + pr_warn("Could not allocate %pap bytes of mirrored memory\n", + &size); + goto again; + } if (!addr) return NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3