NUMA Hotplug Emulator(v6) - Introduction & Feedbacks

* PATCHSET INTRODUCTION

patch 1: Documentation.
patch 2: Adds a numa=possible=<N> command line option to set an additional N nodes
as being possible for memory hotplug.

patch 3: Add node hotplug emulation, introduce debugfs node/add_node interface

patch 4: Abstract cpu register functions, make these interfaces friendly for cpu
hotplug emulation
patch 5: Support cpu probe/release in x86, it provides a software method to hot
add/remove cpu with sysfs interface.
patch 6: Fake CPU socket with logical CPU on x86, to prevent the scheduling
domain to build the incorrect hierarchy.
patch 7: Extend memory probe interface to support NUMA, we can add the memory to
a specified node with the interface.
patch 8: Implement memory probe interface with debugfs

* FEEDBACKDS & RESPONSES

v5:

David: Suggests to use a flexible method to to do node hotplug emulation. After
review our 2 versions emulator implemetations, David provides a better solution
to solve both the flexibility and memory wasting issue.

Add numa=possible=<N> command line option, provide sysfs inteface /sys/devices/system/node/add_node interface, and move the inteface to debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/hotplug/add_node after hearing the voice from community.

Greg KH: move the interface from hotplug/add_node to node/add_node

Response: Accept David's node=possible=<n> command line options. After talking
with David, he agreed to add his patch to our patchset, thanks David's solution(patch 1).

David's original interface /sys/kernel/debug/hotplug/add_node is not so clear for node hotplug emulation, we accept Greg's suggestion, move the interface to ndoe/add_node (patch 2)

Dave Hansen: For memory hotplug, Dave reminds Greg KH's advice, suggest us to use configfs replace
sysfs. After Dave knows that it is just for test purpose, Dave thinks debugfs should
be the best.

Response: memory probe sysfs interface already exists, I'd like to still keep it, and extend it
to support memory add on a specified node(patch 6).

We accepts Dave's suggestion, implement memory probe interface with debugfs(patch 7).

Randy Dunlap: Correct many grammatical errors in our documentation(patch 8).

Response: Thanks for Randy's careful review, we already correct them.

v6:

Greg KH:  Suggest to use interface mem_hotplug/add_node
David:    Agree with Greg's suggestion
Response: We move the interface from node/add_node to mem_hotplug/add_node, and we also move 

memory/probe interface to mem_hotplug/probe since both are related to memory hotplug.

Kletnieks Valdis: suggest to renumber the patch serie, and move patch 8/8 to patch 1/8.
Response: Move patch 8/8 to patch 1/8, and we will include the full description in 0/8 when
we send patches in future.

* WHAT IS HOTPLUG EMULATOR

NUMA hotplug emulator is collectively named for the hotplug emulation it is able to emulate NUMA Node Hotplug thru a pure software way. It intends to help people easily debug and test node/cpu/memory hotplug related stuff on a none-NUMA-hotplug-support machine, even an UMA machine.

The emulator provides mechanism to emulate the process of physcial cpu/mem hotadd, it provides possibility to debug CPU and memory hotplug on the machines without NUMA support for kenrel developers. It offers an interface for cpu and memory hotplug test purpose.

* WHY DO WE USE HOTPLUG EMULATOR

We are focusing on the hotplug emualation for a few months. The emualor helps team to reproduce all the major hotplug bugs. It plays an important role to the hotplug code quality assuirance. Because of the hotplug emulator, we already move most of the debug working to virtual evironment.

* Principles & Usages

NUMA hotplug emulator include 3 different parts: node/CPU/memory hotplug emulation.

1) Node hotplug emulation:

Adds a numa=possible=<N> command line option to set an additional N nodes as being possible for memory hotplug. This set of possible nodes control nr_node_ids and the sizes of several dynamically allocated node arrays.

This allows memory hotplug to create new nodes for newly added memory rather than binding it to existing nodes.

For emulation on x86, it would be possible to set aside memory for hotplugged nodes (say, anything above 2G) and to add an additional four nodes as being possible on boot with

mem=2G numa=possible=4

and then creating a new 128M node at runtime:

	# echo 128M@0x80000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/node/add_node
	On node 1 totalpages: 0
	init_memory_mapping: 0000000080000000-0000000088000000
	 0080000000 - 0088000000 page 2M

Once the new node has been added, its memory can be onlined. If this memory represents memory section 16, for example:

	# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory16/state
	Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 514846
	Policy zone: Normal
 [ The memory section(s) mapped to a particular node are visible via
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1, in this example. ]

2) CPU hotplug emulation:

The emulator reserve CPUs throu grub parameter, the reserved CPUs can be hot-add/hot-remove in software method.

When hotplug a CPU with emulator, we are using a logical CPU to emulate the CPU hotplug process. For the CPU supported SMT, some logical CPUs are in the same socket, but it may located in different NUMA node after we have emulator. We put the logical CPU into a fake CPU socket, and assign it an unique phys_proc_id. For the fake socket, we put one logical CPU in only.

- to hide CPUs
- Using boot option "maxcpus=N" hide CPUs
N is the number of initialize CPUs
- Using boot option "cpu_hpe=on" to enable cpu hotplug emulation
when cpu_hpe is enabled, the rest CPUs will not be initialized

- to hot-add CPU to node

	$ echo nid > cpu/probe

- to hot-remove CPU

	$ echo nid > cpu/release

3) Memory hotplug emulation:

The emulator reserve memory before OS booting, the reserved memory region is remove from e820 table, and they can be hot-added via the probe interface, this interface was extend to support add memory to the specified node, It maintains backwards compatibility.

The difficulty of Memory Release is well-known, we have no plan for it until now.

- reserve memory throu grub parameter
mem=1024m

- add a memory section to node 3

    $ echo 0x40000000,3 > memory/probe
	OR
    $ echo 1024m,3 > memory/probe

* ACKNOWLEDGMENT

hotplug emulator includes a team's efforts, thanks all of them. They are:
Andi Kleen, Haicheng Li, Shaohui Zheng, Fengguang Wu, David Rientjes and Yongkang You

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

add a text file Documentation/x86/x86_64/numa_hotplug_emulator.txt to explain the usage for the hotplug emulator.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/Documentation/x86/x86_64/numa_hotplug_emulator.txt
===================================================================
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+NUMA Hotplug Emulator for x86_64
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+NUMA hotplug emulator is able to emulate NUMA Node Hotplug
+thru a pure software way. It intends to help people easily debug
+and test node/CPU/memory hotplug related stuff on a
+none-NUMA-hotplug-support machine, even a UMA machine and virtual
+environment.
+
+1) Node hotplug emulation:
+
+Adds a numa=possible=<N> command line option to set an additional N nodes
+as being possible for memory hotplug.  This set of possible nodes
+control nr_node_ids and the sizes of several dynamically allocated node
+arrays.
+
+This allows memory hotplug to create new nodes for newly added memory
+rather than binding it to existing nodes.
+
+For emulation on x86, it would be possible to set aside memory for hotplugged
+nodes (say, anything above 2G) and to add an additional four nodes as being
+possible on boot with
+
+	mem=2G numa=possible=4
+
+and then creating a new 128M node at runtime:
+
+	# echo 128M@0x80000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/node/add_node
+	On node 1 totalpages: 0
+	init_memory_mapping: 0000000080000000-0000000088000000
+	 0080000000 - 0088000000 page 2M
+
+Once the new node has been added, its memory can be onlined.  If this
+memory represents memory section 16, for example:
+
+	# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory16/state
+	Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 514846
+	Policy zone: Normal
+ [ The memory section(s) mapped to a particular node are visible via
+   /sys/devices/system/node/node1, in this example. ]
+
+2) CPU hotplug emulation:
+
+The emulator reserve CPUs throu grub parameter, the reserved CPUs can be
+hot-add/hot-remove in software method, it emulates the process of physical
+cpu hotplug.
+
+When hotplugging a CPU with emulator, we are using a logical CPU to emulate the CPU
+socket hotplug process. For the CPU supported SMT, some logical CPUs are in the
+same socket, but it may located in different NUMA node after we have emulator.
+We put the logical CPU into a fake CPU socket, and assign it a unique
+phys_proc_id. For the fake socket, we put one logical CPU in only.
+
+ - to hide CPUs
+	- Using boot option "maxcpus=N" hide CPUs
+	  N is the number of CPUs to initialize; the reset will be hidden.
+	- Using boot option "cpu_hpe=on" to enable CPU hotplug emulation
+      when cpu_hpe is enabled, the rest CPUs will not be initialized
+
+ - to hot-add CPU to node
+	$ echo nid > cpu/probe
+
+ - to hot-remove CPU
+	$ echo nid > cpu/release
+
+3) Memory hotplug emulation:
+
+The emulator reserves memory before OS boots, the reserved memory region is
+removed from e820 table, and they can be hot-added via the probe interface.
+this interface was extended to support adding memory to the specified node. It
+maintains backwards compatibility.
+
+The difficulty of Memory Release is well-known, we have no plan for it until now.
+
+ - reserve memory thru a kernel boot paramter
+ 	mem=1024m
+
+ - add a memory section to node 3
+    $ echo 0x40000000,3 > memory/probe
+	OR
+    $ echo 1024m,3 > memory/probe
+	OR
+    $ echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe
+
+4) Script for hotplug testing
+
+These scripts provides convenience when we hot-add memory/cpu in batch.
+
+- Online all memory sections:
+for m in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*;
+do
+	echo online > $m/state;
+done
+
+- CPU Online:
+for c in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*;
+do
+	echo 1 > $c/online;
+done
+
+- David Rientjes <[email protected]>
+- Haicheng Li <[email protected]>
+- Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>
+  Nov 2010

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

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Resend this patch after adding David's sign-off.

Subject: NUMA Hotplug Emulator: documentation

From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

add a text file Documentation/x86/x86_64/numa_hotplug_emulator.txt to explain the usage for the hotplug emulator.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/Documentation/x86/x86_64/numa_hotplug_emulator.txt
===================================================================
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+NUMA Hotplug Emulator for x86_64
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+NUMA hotplug emulator is able to emulate NUMA Node Hotplug
+thru a pure software way. It intends to help people easily debug
+and test node/CPU/memory hotplug related stuff on a
+none-NUMA-hotplug-support machine, even a UMA machine and virtual
+environment.
+
+1) Node hotplug emulation:
+
+Adds a numa=possible=<N> command line option to set an additional N nodes
+as being possible for memory hotplug.  This set of possible nodes
+control nr_node_ids and the sizes of several dynamically allocated node
+arrays.
+
+This allows memory hotplug to create new nodes for newly added memory
+rather than binding it to existing nodes.
+
+For emulation on x86, it would be possible to set aside memory for hotplugged
+nodes (say, anything above 2G) and to add an additional four nodes as being
+possible on boot with
+
+	mem=2G numa=possible=4
+
+and then creating a new 128M node at runtime:
+
+	# echo 128M@0x80000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/node/add_node
+	On node 1 totalpages: 0
+	init_memory_mapping: 0000000080000000-0000000088000000
+	 0080000000 - 0088000000 page 2M
+
+Once the new node has been added, its memory can be onlined.  If this
+memory represents memory section 16, for example:
+
+	# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory16/state
+	Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 514846
+	Policy zone: Normal
+ [ The memory section(s) mapped to a particular node are visible via
+   /sys/devices/system/node/node1, in this example. ]
+
+2) CPU hotplug emulation:
+
+The emulator reserve CPUs throu grub parameter, the reserved CPUs can be
+hot-add/hot-remove in software method, it emulates the process of physical
+cpu hotplug.
+
+When hotplugging a CPU with emulator, we are using a logical CPU to emulate the CPU
+socket hotplug process. For the CPU supported SMT, some logical CPUs are in the
+same socket, but it may located in different NUMA node after we have emulator.
+We put the logical CPU into a fake CPU socket, and assign it a unique
+phys_proc_id. For the fake socket, we put one logical CPU in only.
+
+ - to hide CPUs
+	- Using boot option "maxcpus=N" hide CPUs
+	  N is the number of CPUs to initialize; the reset will be hidden.
+	- Using boot option "cpu_hpe=on" to enable CPU hotplug emulation
+      when cpu_hpe is enabled, the rest CPUs will not be initialized
+
+ - to hot-add CPU to node
+	$ echo nid > cpu/probe
+
+ - to hot-remove CPU
+	$ echo nid > cpu/release
+
+3) Memory hotplug emulation:
+
+The emulator reserves memory before OS boots, the reserved memory region is
+removed from e820 table, and they can be hot-added via the probe interface.
+this interface was extended to support adding memory to the specified node. It
+maintains backwards compatibility.
+
+The difficulty of Memory Release is well-known, we have no plan for it until now.
+
+ - reserve memory thru a kernel boot paramter
+ 	mem=1024m
+
+ - add a memory section to node 3
+    $ echo 0x40000000,3 > memory/probe
+	OR
+    $ echo 1024m,3 > memory/probe
+	OR
+    $ echo "physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3" > memory/probe
+
+4) Script for hotplug testing
+
+These scripts provides convenience when we hot-add memory/cpu in batch.
+
+- Online all memory sections:
+for m in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*;
+do
+	echo online > $m/state;
+done
+
+- CPU Online:
+for c in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*;
+do
+	echo 1 > $c/online;
+done
+
+- David Rientjes <[email protected]>
+- Haicheng Li <[email protected]>
+- Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>
+  Nov 2010

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

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From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>

Adds a numa=possible=<N> command line option to set an additional N nodes as being possible for memory hotplug. This set of possible nodes controls nr_node_ids and the sizes of several dynamically allocated node arrays.

This allows memory hotplug to create new nodes for newly added memory rather than binding it to existing nodes.

The first use-case for this will be node hotplug emulation which will use these possible nodes to create new nodes to test the memory hotplug callbacks and surrounding memory hotplug code.

---
 Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c                     |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ NUMA
 		If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes
 		interleaved over physical nodes.
 
+  numa=possible=<N>
+		Sets an additional N nodes as being possible for memory
+		hotplug.
+
 ACPI
 
   acpi=off	Don't enable ACPI

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ s16 apicid_to_node[MAX_LOCAL_APIC] __cpuinitdata = {
 int numa_off __initdata;
 static unsigned long __initdata nodemap_addr;
 static unsigned long __initdata nodemap_size;
+static unsigned long __initdata numa_possible_nodes;
 
 /*
  * Map cpu index to node index

@@ -611,7 +612,7 @@ void __init initmem_init(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long last_pfn,
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_EMU
 	if (cmdline && !numa_emulation(start_pfn, last_pfn, acpi, k8))
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	nodes_clear(node_possible_map);
 	nodes_clear(node_online_map);
 #endif

@@ -619,14 +620,14 @@ void __init initmem_init(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long last_pfn,
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA
 	if (!numa_off && acpi && !acpi_scan_nodes(start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
 						  last_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT))
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	nodes_clear(node_possible_map);
 	nodes_clear(node_online_map);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_K8_NUMA
 	if (!numa_off && k8 && !k8_scan_nodes())
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	nodes_clear(node_possible_map);
 	nodes_clear(node_online_map);
 #endif

@@ -646,6 +647,15 @@ void __init initmem_init(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long last_pfn,
 		numa_set_node(i, 0);
 	memblock_x86_register_active_regions(0, start_pfn, last_pfn);
 	setup_node_bootmem(0, start_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, last_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+out: __maybe_unused
+	for (i = 0; i < numa_possible_nodes; i++) {
+		int nid;
+
+		nid = first_unset_node(node_possible_map);
+		if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
+			break;
+		node_set(nid, node_possible_map);
+	}
 }
 
 unsigned long __init numa_free_all_bootmem(void)

@@ -675,6 +685,8 @@ static __init int numa_setup(char *opt)
 	if (!strncmp(opt, "noacpi", 6))
 		acpi_numa = -1;
 #endif
+	if (!strncmp(opt, "possible=", 9))
+		numa_possible_nodes = simple_strtoul(opt + 9, NULL, 0);
 	return 0;
 }
 early_param("numa", numa_setup);

Thanks & Regards,
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You're going to need to add your Signed-off-by line immediately after mine if you're pushing these to a maintainer, you're along the submission chain.

I did not add my name as Signed-off-by since you are the patch author, I will add it, thanks David.

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui

From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>

Add an interface to allow new nodes to be added when performing memory hot-add. This provides a convenient interface to test memory hotplug notifier callbacks and surrounding hotplug code when new nodes are onlined without actually having a machine with such hotpluggable SRAT entries.

This adds a new debugfs interface at /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/add_node that behaves in a similar way to the memory hot-add "probe" interface. Its format is size@start, where "size" is the size of the new node to be added and "start" is the physical address of the new memory.

The new node id is a currently offline, but possible, node. The bit must be set in node_possible_map so that nr_node_ids is sized appropriately.

For emulation on x86, for example, it would be possible to set aside memory for hotplugged nodes (say, anything above 2G) and to add an additional four nodes as being possible on boot with

mem=2G numa=possible=4

and then creating a new 128M node at runtime:

	# echo 128M@0x80000000 > /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/add_node
	On node 1 totalpages: 0
	init_memory_mapping: 0000000080000000-0000000088000000
	 0080000000 - 0088000000 page 2M
Once the new node has been added, its memory can be onlined.  If this
memory represents memory section 16, for example:

	# echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory16/state
	Built 2 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 514846
	Policy zone: Normal
 [ The memory section(s) mapped to a particular node are visible via
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1, in this example. ]

The new node is now hotplugged and ready for testing.

---
 Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt |   24 +++++++++++++++
 mm/memory_hotplug.c              |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Index: linux-hpe4/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
===================================================================
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 4. Physical memory hot-add phase
   4.1 Hardware(Firmware) Support
   4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand
+  4.3 Node hotplug emulation
 5. Logical Memory hot-add phase
   5.1. State of memory
   5.2. How to online memory

@@ -215,6 +216,29 @@
 Please see "How to online memory" in this text.
 
 
+4.3 Node hotplug emulation
+------------
+With debugfs, it is possible to test node hotplug by assigning the newly
+added memory to a new node id when using a different interface with a similar
+behavior to "probe" described in section 4.2.  If a node id is possible
+(there are bits in /sys/devices/system/memory/possible that are not online),
+then it may be used to emulate a newly added node as the result of memory
+hotplug by using the debugfs "add_node" interface.
+
+The add_node interface is located at "mem_hotplug/add_node" at the debugfs
+mount point.
+
+You can create a new node of a specified size starting at the physical
+address of new memory by
+
+% echo size@start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/add_node
+
+Where "size" can be represented in megabytes or gigabytes (for example,
+"128M" or "1G").  The minumum size is that of a memory section.
+
+Once the new node has been added, it is possible to online the memory by
+toggling the "state" of its memory section(s) as described in section 5.1.
+
 
 ------------------------------
 5. Logical Memory hot-add phase

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From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

Abstract cpu register functions, provide a more flexible interface register_cpu_node, the new interface provides convenience to add cpu to a specified node, we can use it to add a cpu to a fake node.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
===================================================================
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 extern int arch_register_cpu(int num);
+extern int arch_register_cpu_node(int num, int nid);
 extern void arch_unregister_cpu(int);
 #endif
 

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
===================================================================
@@ -52,6 +52,15 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_register_cpu);
 
+int __ref arch_register_cpu_node(int num, int nid)
+{
+	if (num)
+		per_cpu(cpu_devices, num).cpu.hotpluggable = 1;
+
+	return register_cpu_node(&per_cpu(cpu_devices, num).cpu, num, nid);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_register_cpu_node);
+
 void arch_unregister_cpu(int num)
 {
 	unregister_cpu(&per_cpu(cpu_devices, num).cpu);

Index: linux-hpe4/drivers/base/cpu.c
===================================================================
@@ -208,17 +208,18 @@
 static SYSDEV_CLASS_ATTR(offline, 0444, print_cpus_offline, NULL);
 
 /*
- * register_cpu - Setup a sysfs device for a CPU.
+ * register_cpu_node - Setup a sysfs device for a CPU.
  * @cpu - cpu->hotpluggable field set to 1 will generate a control file in
  *	  sysfs for this CPU.
  * @num - CPU number to use when creating the device.
+ * @nid - Node ID to use, if any.
  *
  * Initialize and register the CPU device.
  */
-int __cpuinit register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
+int __cpuinit register_cpu_node(struct cpu *cpu, int num, int nid)
 {
 	int error;
-	cpu->node_id = cpu_to_node(num);
+	cpu->node_id = nid;
 	cpu->sysdev.id = num;
 	cpu->sysdev.cls = &cpu_sysdev_class;
 

@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@
 	if (!error)
 		per_cpu(cpu_sys_devices, num) = &cpu->sysdev;
 	if (!error)
-		register_cpu_under_node(num, cpu_to_node(num));
+		register_cpu_under_node(num, nid);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
 	if (!error)

Index: linux-hpe4/include/linux/cpu.h
===================================================================
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@
 	struct sys_device sysdev;
 };
 
-extern int register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num);
+extern int register_cpu_node(struct cpu *cpu, int num, int nid);
+
+static inline int register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)
+{
+	return register_cpu_node(cpu, num, cpu_to_node(num));
+}
+
 extern struct sys_device *get_cpu_sysdev(unsigned cpu);
 
 extern int cpu_add_sysdev_attr(struct sysdev_attribute *attr);

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Shaohui


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From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

CPU physical hot-add/hot-remove are supported on some hardwares, and it was already supported in current linux kernel. CPU Hotplug Emulator provides a mechanism to emulate the process with software method. It can be used for testing or debuging purpose.

CPU physical hotplug is different with logical CPU online/offline. Logical online/offline is controled by interface /sys/device/cpu/cpuX/online. CPU hotplug emulator uses probe/release interface. It becomes possible to do cpu hotplug automation and stress

Add cpu interface probe/release under sysfs for x86_64. User can use this interface to emulate the cpu hot-add and hot-remove process.

Directive:
*) Reserve CPU thru grub parameter like:
maxcpus=4

the rest CPUs will not be initiliazed.

*) Probe CPU
we can use the probe interface to hot-add new CPUs:
echo nid > /sys/devices/system/cpu/probe

*) Release a CPU
echo cpu > /sys/devices/system/cpu/release

A reserved CPU will be hot-added to the specified node.
1) nid == 0, the CPU will be added to the real node which the CPU should be in
2) nid != 0, add the CPU to node nid even through it is a fake node.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
===================================================================
@@ -647,8 +647,44 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_map_lsapic);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+static void acpi_map_cpu2node_emu(int cpu, int physid, int nid)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	apicid_to_node[physid] = nid;
+	numa_set_node(cpu, nid);
+#else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
+	apicid_2_node[physid] = nid;
+	cpu_to_node_map[cpu] = nid;
+#endif
+#endif
+}
+
+static u16 cpu_to_apicid_saved[CONFIG_NR_CPUS];
+int __ref acpi_map_lsapic_emu(int pcpu, int nid)
+{
+	/* backup cpu apicid to array cpu_to_apicid_saved */
+	if (cpu_to_apicid_saved[pcpu] == 0 &&
+		per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, pcpu) != BAD_APICID)
+		cpu_to_apicid_saved[pcpu] = per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, pcpu);
+
+	per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, pcpu) = cpu_to_apicid_saved[pcpu];
+	acpi_map_cpu2node_emu(pcpu, per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, pcpu), nid);
+
+	return pcpu;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_map_lsapic_emu);
+#endif
+
 int acpi_unmap_lsapic(int cpu)
 {
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+	/* backup cpu apicid to array cpu_to_apicid_saved */
+	if (cpu_to_apicid_saved[cpu] == 0 &&
+		per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu) != BAD_APICID)
+		cpu_to_apicid_saved[cpu] = per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu);
+#endif
 	per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu) = -1;
 	set_cpu_present(cpu, false);
 	num_processors--;

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
@@ -107,8 +107,6 @@
         mutex_unlock(&x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex);
 }
 
-ssize_t arch_cpu_probe(const char *buf, size_t count) { return -1; }
-ssize_t arch_cpu_release(const char *buf, size_t count) { return -1; }
 #else
 static struct task_struct *idle_thread_array[NR_CPUS] __cpuinitdata ;
 #define get_idle_for_cpu(x)      (idle_thread_array[(x)])

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c
===================================================================
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
 
 #include <asm/e820.h>
 #include <asm/proto.h>

@@ -785,6 +786,19 @@
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+static __init int cpu_hpe_setup(char *opt)
+{
+	if (!opt)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (!strncmp(opt, "on", 2) || !strncmp(opt, "1", 1))
+		cpu_hpe_on = 1;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("cpu_hpe", cpu_hpe_setup);
+#endif  /* CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE */
 
 void __cpuinit numa_set_node(int cpu, int node)
 {

Index: linux-hpe4/drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c
===================================================================
@@ -530,6 +530,14 @@
 		goto err_free_cpumask;
 
 	sysdev = get_cpu_sysdev(pr->id);
+	/*
+	 * Reserve cpu for hotplug emulation, the reserved cpu can be hot-added
+	 * throu the cpu probe interface. Return directly.
+	 */
+	if (sysdev == NULL) {
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (sysfs_create_link(&device->dev.kobj, &sysdev->kobj, "sysdev")) {
 		result = -EFAULT;
 		goto err_remove_fs;

@@ -570,6 +578,7 @@
 		goto err_remove_sysfs;
 	}
 
+out:
 	return 0;
 
 err_remove_sysfs:

Index: linux-hpe4/drivers/base/cpu.c
===================================================================
@@ -22,9 +22,15 @@
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_sysdev_class);
 
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device *, cpu_sys_devices);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device *, cpu_sys_devices);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+/*
+ * cpu_hpe_on is a switch to enable/disable cpu hotplug emulation. it is
+ * disabled in default, we can enable it throu grub parameter cpu_hpe=on
+ */
+int cpu_hpe_on;
+
 static ssize_t show_online(struct sys_device *dev, struct sysdev_attribute *attr,
 			   char *buf)
 {

Index: linux-hpe4/include/linux/acpi.h
===================================================================
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU
 /* Arch dependent functions for cpu hotplug support */
 int acpi_map_lsapic(acpi_handle handle, int *pcpu);
+int acpi_map_lsapic_emu(int pcpu, int nid);
 int acpi_unmap_lsapic(int cpu);
 #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 

Index: linux-hpe4/include/linux/cpu.h
===================================================================
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 	struct sys_device sysdev;
 };
 
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct sys_device *, cpu_sys_devices);
+
 extern int register_cpu_node(struct cpu *cpu, int num, int nid);
 
 static inline int register_cpu(struct cpu *cpu, int num)

@@ -149,6 +151,7 @@
 #define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb)	register_cpu_notifier(nb)
 #define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb)	unregister_cpu_notifier(nb)
 int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu);
+extern int cpu_hpe_on;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
 extern void cpu_hotplug_driver_lock(void);

@@ -171,6 +174,7 @@
 /* These aren't inline functions due to a GCC bug. */
 #define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb)	({ (void)(nb); 0; })
 #define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb)	({ (void)(nb); })
+static int cpu_hpe_on;
 #endif		/* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP_SMP

Index: linux-hpe4/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt
===================================================================
@@ -316,3 +316,9 @@
 		Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
 	gbpages
 		Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings.
+	cpu_hpe=on/off
+		Enable/disable CPU hotplug emulation with software method. When cpu_hpe=on,
+		sysfs provides probe/release interface to hot add/remove CPUs dynamically.
+		We can use maxcpus=<N> to reserve CPUs.
+		This option is disabled by default.
+			

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui


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From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

When hotplug a CPU with emulator, we are using a logical CPU to emulate the CPU hotplug process. For the CPU supported SMT, some logical CPUs are in the same socket, but it may located in different NUMA node after we have emulator. it misleads the scheduling domain to build the incorrect hierarchy, and it causes the following call trace when rebalance the scheduling domain:

divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/online CPU 0

Modules linked in: fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor radeon ttm drm_kms_helper e1000e usbhid via_rhine mii drm i2c_algo_bit igb dca
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32hpe #78 X8DTN
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81051da5>]  [<ffffffff81051da5>] find_busiest_group+0x6c5/0xa10
RSP: 0018:ffff880028203c30  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000015ac0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880277e8cfa0 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff880028203dc0 R08: ffff880277e8cfa0 R09: 0000000000000040
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880028200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 00007f16cfc85770 CR3: 0000000001001000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81822000, task ffffffff8184a600)
Stack:
 ffff880028203d60 ffff880028203cd0 ffff8801c204ff08 ffff880028203e38
<0> 0101ffff81018c59 ffff880028203e44 00000001810806bd ffff8801c204fe00
<0> 0000000528200000 ffffffff00000000 0000000000000018 0000000000015ac0
Call Trace:
 <IRQ> 
 [<ffffffff81088ee0>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x40/0xd0
 [<ffffffff81053b2c>] rebalance_domains+0x17c/0x570
 [<ffffffff81018c89>] ? read_tsc+0x9/0x20
 [<ffffffff81088ee0>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x40/0xd0
 [<ffffffff810569ed>] run_rebalance_domains+0xbd/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8106471f>] __do_softirq+0xaf/0x1e0
 [<ffffffff810b7d18>] ? handle_IRQ_event+0x58/0x160
 [<ffffffff810130ac>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
 [<ffffffff81014a85>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
 [<ffffffff810645cd>] irq_exit+0x7d/0x90
 [<ffffffff81013ff0>] do_IRQ+0x70/0xe0
 [<ffffffff810128d3>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
 <EOI> 
 [<ffffffff8133387f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x281/0x2b5
 [<ffffffff81333878>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x27a/0x2b5
 [<ffffffff8145dc8f>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0x9f/0x130
 [<ffffffff81010e2b>] ? cpu_idle+0xab/0x100
 [<ffffffff8158aee6>] ? rest_init+0x66/0x70
 [<ffffffff81905d90>] ? start_kernel+0x3e3/0x3ef
 [<ffffffff8190533a>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
 [<ffffffff81905438>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
Code: 00 00 e9 4c fb ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 8b b5 d8 fe ff ff 48 8b 45 a8 4d 29 ef 8b 56 08 48 c1 e0 0a 49 89 f0 48 89 d7 31 d2 <48> f7 f7 31 d2 48 89 45 a0 8b 76 08 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e0 0a 48 f7 
RIP  [<ffffffff81051da5>] find_busiest_group+0x6c5/0xa10
 RSP <ffff880028203c30>

Solution:

We put the logical CPU into a fake CPU socket, and assign it an unique
phys_proc_id. For the fake socket, we put one logical CPU in only. This
method fixes the above bug.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
===================================================================
@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@
 	/* Index into per_cpu list: */
 	u16			cpu_index;
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+	/*
+	 * Use a logic cpu to emulate a physical cpu's hotplug. We put the
+	 * logical cpu into a fake socket, assign a fake physical id to it,
+	 * and create a fake core.
+	 */
+	__u8		cpu_probe_on; /* A flag to enable cpu probe/release */
+#endif
 } __attribute__((__aligned__(SMP_CACHE_BYTES)));
 
 #define X86_VENDOR_INTEL	0

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
===================================================================
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
  */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
 void cpu_hotplug_driver_lock()
 {
         mutex_lock(&x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex);

@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@
 {
         mutex_unlock(&x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex);
 }
+#endif
 
 #else
 static struct task_struct *idle_thread_array[NR_CPUS] __cpuinitdata ;

@@ -198,6 +200,8 @@
 {
 	int cpuid, phys_id;
 	unsigned long timeout;
+	u8 cpu_probe_on = 0;
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c;
 
 	/*
 	 * If waken up by an INIT in an 82489DX configuration

@@ -277,7 +281,20 @@
 	/*
 	 * Save our processor parameters
 	 */
+	c = &cpu_data(cpuid);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+	cpu_probe_on = c->cpu_probe_on;
+	phys_id = c->phys_proc_id;
+#endif
+
 	smp_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+	if (cpu_probe_on) {
+		c->phys_proc_id = phys_id; /* restore the fake phys_proc_id */
+		c->cpu_core_id = 0; /* force the logical cpu to core 0 */
+		c->cpu_probe_on = cpu_probe_on;
+	}
+#endif
 
 	notify_cpu_starting(cpuid);
 

@@ -400,6 +417,11 @@
 {
 	int i;
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
+	int cpu_probe_on = 0;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+	cpu_probe_on = c->cpu_probe_on;
+#endif
 
 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_sibling_setup_mask);
 

@@ -431,7 +453,8 @@
 
 	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_sibling_setup_mask) {
 		if (per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu) != BAD_APICID &&
-		    per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu) == per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, i)) {
+		    per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu) == per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, i) &&
+			cpu_probe_on == 0) {
 			cpumask_set_cpu(i, c->llc_shared_map);
 			cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_data(i).llc_shared_map);
 		}

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
===================================================================
@@ -70,6 +70,36 @@
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_unregister_cpu);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
+/*
+ * Put the logical cpu into a new sokect, and encapsule it into core 0.
+ */
+static void fake_cpu_socket_info(int cpu)
+{
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
+	int i, phys_id = 0;
+
+	/* calculate the max phys_id */
+	for_each_present_cpu(i) {
+		struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i);
+		if (phys_id < c->phys_proc_id)
+			phys_id = c->phys_proc_id;
+	}
+
+	c->phys_proc_id = phys_id + 1; /* pick up a unused phys_proc_id */
+	c->cpu_core_id = 0; /* always put the logical cpu to core 0 */
+	c->cpu_probe_on = 1;
+}
+
+static void clear_cpu_socket_info(int cpu)
+{
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
+	c->phys_proc_id = 0;
+	c->cpu_core_id = 0;
+	c->cpu_probe_on = 0;
+}
+
+
 ssize_t arch_cpu_probe(const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
 	int nid = 0;

@@ -109,6 +139,7 @@
 	/* register cpu */
 	arch_register_cpu_node(selected, nid);
 	acpi_map_lsapic_emu(selected, nid);
+	fake_cpu_socket_info(selected);
 
 	return count;
 }

@@ -132,10 +163,13 @@
 
 	arch_unregister_cpu(cpu);
 	acpi_unmap_lsapic(cpu);
+	clear_cpu_socket_info(cpu);
+	set_cpu_present(cpu, true);
 
 	return count;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_cpu_release);
+#endif CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
 
 #else /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui


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From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

Extend memory probe interface to support an extra paramter nid, the reserved memory can be added into this node if node exists.

Add a memory section(128M) to node 3(boots with mem=1024m)

	echo 0x40000000,3 > memory/probe

And more we make it friendly, it is possible to add memory to do

	echo 3g > memory/probe
	echo 1024m,3 > memory/probe

It maintains backwards compatibility.

Another format suggested by Dave Hansen:

	echo physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3 > memory/probe

it is more explicit to show meaning of the parameters.

---

Index: linux-hpe4/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
@@ -1276,10 +1276,6 @@
 	def_bool y
 	depends on ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 
-config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
-	def_bool X86_64
-	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
-
 config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
        hex
        default 0 if X86_32

Index: linux-hpe4/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
@@ -174,6 +174,17 @@
 	default "999999" if DEBUG_SPINLOCK || DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
 	default "4"
 
+config ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
+	def_bool y
+	bool "Memory hotplug emulation"
+	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	---help---
+	  Enable memory hotplug emulation. Reserve memory with grub parameter
+	  "mem=N"(such as mem=1024M), where N is the initial memory size, the
+	  rest physical memory will be removed from e820 table; the memory probe
+	  interface is for memory hot-add to specified node in software method.
+	  This is for debuging and testing purpose
+
 #
 # support for memory compaction
 config COMPACTION

Index: linux-hpe4/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
===================================================================
@@ -211,5 +211,13 @@
 extern void sparse_remove_one_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms);
 extern struct page *sparse_decode_mem_map(unsigned long coded_mem_map,
 					  unsigned long pnum);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
+extern ssize_t parse_memory_probe_store(const char *buf, size_t count);
+#else
+static inline ssize_t parse_memory_probe_store(const char *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif  /* CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE */
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H */

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Shaohui


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I don't like this interface, I think it would be much better to map the memory region to the desired node id prior to using probe as an extention to debugfs.

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From: Shaohui Zheng <[email protected]>

Implement a debugfs inteface /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/probe for meomory hotplug emulation. it accepts the same parameters like /sys/devices/system/memory/probe.

Document the interface usage to file Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.

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Index: linux-hpe4/mm/memory_hotplug.c
===================================================================
@@ -983,4 +983,35 @@
 }
 
 module_init(node_debug_init);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE
+
+static ssize_t debug_memory_probe_store(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
+				size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	return parse_memory_probe_store(buf, count);
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations memory_probe_file_ops = {
+	.write		= debug_memory_probe_store,
+	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
+};
+
+static int __init memory_debug_init(void)
+{
+	if (!memhp_debug_root)
+		memhp_debug_root = debugfs_create_dir("mem_hotplug", NULL);
+	if (!memhp_debug_root)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	if (!debugfs_create_file("probe", S_IWUSR, memhp_debug_root,
+			NULL, &memory_probe_file_ops))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+module_init(memory_debug_init);
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE */
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */

Index: linux-hpe4/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
===================================================================
@@ -198,23 +198,41 @@
 In some environments, especially virtualized environment, firmware will not
 notify memory hotplug event to the kernel. For such environment, "probe"
 interface is supported. This interface depends on CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE.
+It can be also used for physical memory hotplug emulation.
 
-Now, CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is supported only by powerpc but it does not
-contain highly architecture codes. Please add config if you need "probe"
+Now, CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is supported by powerpc and x86_64, but it does
+not contain highly architecture codes. Please add config if you need "probe"
 interface.
 
-Probe interface is located at
-/sys/devices/system/memory/probe
+We have both sysfs and debugfs interface for memory probe. They are located at
+/sys/devices/system/memory/probe (sysfs) and /sys/kernel/debug/mem_hotplug/probe
+(debugfs), We can try any of them, they accpet the same parameters.
 
 You can tell the physical address of new memory to the kernel by
 
-% echo start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
+% echo start_address_of_new_memory > memory/probe
 
 Then, [start_address_of_new_memory, start_address_of_new_memory + section_size)
 memory range is hot-added. In this case, hotplug script is not called (in
 current implementation). You'll have to online memory by yourself.
 Please see "How to online memory" in this text.
 
+The probe interface can accept flexible parameters, for example:
+
+Add a memory section(128M) to node 3(boots with mem=1024m)
+
+	echo 0x40000000,3 > memory/probe
+
+And more we make it friendly, it is possible to add memory to do
+
+	echo 3g > memory/probe
+	echo 1024m,3 > memory/probe
+
+Another format suggested by Dave Hansen:
+
+	echo physical_address=0x40000000 numa_node=3 > memory/probe
+
+You can also use mem_hotplug/probe(debugfs) interface in the above examples.
 
 4.3 Node hotplug emulation
 ------------

Thanks & Regards,
Shaohui


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NACK, we don't need two interfaces to do the same thing.

You may not know the background, the sysfs memory/probe interface is a general interface. Even through we have a debugfs interface, we should still keep it.

For test purpose, the sysfs is enough, according to the comments from Greg & Dave, we create the debugfs interface.

Thanks & Regards,
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I doubt either Greg or Dave suggested adding duplicate interfaces for the same functionality.

The difference is that we needed to add the add_node interface in a new mem_hotplug debugfs directory because it's only useful for debugging kernel code and, thus, doesn't really have an appropriate place in sysfs. Nobody is going to use add_node unless they lack hotpluggable memory sections in their SRAT and want to debug the memory hotplug callers. For example, I already wrote all of this node hotplug emulation stuff when I wrote the node hotplug support for SLAB.

Memory hotplug, however, does serve a non-debugging function and is appropriate in sysfs since this is how people hotplug memory. It's an ABI that we can't simply remove without deprecation over a substantial period of time and in this case it doesn't seem to have a clear advantage. We need not add special emulation support for something that is already possible for real systems, so adding a duplicate interface in debugfs is inappropriate.