Commit 3f429842 authored by Heiko Carstens's avatar Heiko Carstens Committed by Martin Schwidefsky
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s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocator 



If memory is fragmented it is unlikely that large order memory
allocations succeed. This has been an issue with the vmcp device
driver since a long time, since it requires large physical contiguous
memory ares for large responses.

To hopefully resolve this issue make use of the contiguous memory
allocator (cma). This patch adds a vmcp specific vmcp cma area with a
default size of 4MB. The size can be changed either via the
VMCP_CMA_SIZE config option at compile time or with the "vmcp_cma"
kernel parameter (e.g. "vmcp_cma=16m").

For any vmcp response buffers larger than 16k memory from the cma area
will be allocated. If such an allocation fails, there is a fallback to
the buddy allocator.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
parent cd4386a9

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

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@@ -4375,6 +4375,10 @@ 
			decrease the size and leave more room for directly

			mapped kernel RAM.



	vmcp_cma=nn[MG]	[KNL,S390]

			Sets the memory size reserved for contiguous memory

			allocations for the vmcp device driver.



	vmhalt=		[KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after system halt.

			Format: <command>

arch/s390/include/asm/setup.h

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@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ extern void pfault_fini(void); 
#define pfault_fini()		do { } while (0)

#endif /* CONFIG_PFAULT */



#ifdef CONFIG_VMCP

void vmcp_cma_reserve(void);

#else

static inline void vmcp_cma_reserve(void) { }

#endif



void report_user_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, long signr, int is_mm_fault);



void cmma_init(void);

arch/s390/kernel/setup.c

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@@ -925,6 +925,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) 
	setup_memory_end();

	setup_memory();

	dma_contiguous_reserve(memory_end);

	vmcp_cma_reserve();



	check_initrd();

	reserve_crashkernel();

drivers/s390/char/Kconfig

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@@ -169,10 +169,21 @@ config VMCP 
	def_bool y

	prompt "Support for the z/VM CP interface"

	depends on S390

	select CMA

	help

	  Select this option if you want to be able to interact with the control

	  program on z/VM



config VMCP_CMA_SIZE

	int "Memory in MiB reserved for z/VM CP interface"

	default "4"

	depends on VMCP

	help

	  Specify the default amount of memory in MiB reserved for the z/VM CP

	  interface. If needed this memory is used for large contiguous memory

	  allocations. The default can be changed with the kernel command line

	  parameter "vmcp_cma".



config MONREADER

	def_tristate m

	prompt "API for reading z/VM monitor service records"

drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c

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@@ -17,15 +17,77 @@ 
#include <linux/kernel.h>

#include <linux/miscdevice.h>

#include <linux/slab.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>

#include <linux/export.h>

#include <linux/mutex.h>

#include <linux/cma.h>

#include <linux/mm.h>

#include <asm/compat.h>

#include <asm/cpcmd.h>

#include <asm/debug.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>

#include "vmcp.h"



static debug_info_t *vmcp_debug;



static unsigned long vmcp_cma_size __initdata = CONFIG_VMCP_CMA_SIZE * 1024 * 1024;

static struct cma *vmcp_cma;



static int __init early_parse_vmcp_cma(char *p)

{

	vmcp_cma_size = ALIGN(memparse(p, NULL), PAGE_SIZE);

	return 0;

}

early_param("vmcp_cma", early_parse_vmcp_cma);



void __init vmcp_cma_reserve(void)

{

	if (!MACHINE_IS_VM)

		return;

	cma_declare_contiguous(0, vmcp_cma_size, 0, 0, 0, false, "vmcp", &vmcp_cma);

}



static void vmcp_response_alloc(struct vmcp_session *session)

{

	struct page *page = NULL;

	int nr_pages, order;



	order = get_order(session->bufsize);

	nr_pages = ALIGN(session->bufsize, PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;

	/*

	 * For anything below order 3 allocations rely on the buddy

	 * allocator. If such low-order allocations can't be handled

	 * anymore the system won't work anyway.

	 */

	if (order > 2)

		page = cma_alloc(vmcp_cma, nr_pages, 0, GFP_KERNEL);

	if (page) {

		session->response = (char *)page_to_phys(page);

		session->cma_alloc = 1;

		return;

	}

	session->response = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL, order);

}



static void vmcp_response_free(struct vmcp_session *session)

{

	int nr_pages, order;

	struct page *page;



	if (!session->response)

		return;

	order = get_order(session->bufsize);

	nr_pages = ALIGN(session->bufsize, PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;

	if (session->cma_alloc) {

		page = phys_to_page((unsigned long)session->response);

		cma_release(vmcp_cma, page, nr_pages);

		session->cma_alloc = 0;

		goto out;

	}

	free_pages((unsigned long)session->response, order);

out:

	session->response = NULL;

}



static int vmcp_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

{

	struct vmcp_session *session;
@@ -51,7 +113,7 @@ static int vmcp_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) 


	session = file->private_data;

	file->private_data = NULL;

	free_pages((unsigned long)session->response, get_order(session->bufsize));

	vmcp_response_free(session);

	kfree(session);

	return 0;

}
@@ -97,9 +159,7 @@ vmcp_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buff, size_t count, 
		return -ERESTARTSYS;

	}

	if (!session->response)

		session->response = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL

						| __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL,

						get_order(session->bufsize));

		vmcp_response_alloc(session);

	if (!session->response) {

		mutex_unlock(&session->mutex);

		kfree(cmd);
@@ -146,9 +206,7 @@ static long vmcp_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) 
		mutex_unlock(&session->mutex);

		return put_user(temp, argp);

	case VMCP_SETBUF:

		free_pages((unsigned long)session->response,

				get_order(session->bufsize));

		session->response=NULL;

		vmcp_response_free(session);

		temp = get_user(session->bufsize, argp);

		if (temp)

			session->bufsize = PAGE_SIZE;

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