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David Hildenbrand e3a6970b7d s390/sparsemem: Reduce section size to 128 MiB 
Ever since commit 421c175c4d ("[S390] Add support for memory hot-add.")
we've been using a section size of 256 MiB on s390 and 32 MiB on s390.
Before that, we were using a section size of 32 MiB on both
architectures.

Now that we have a new mechanism to expose additional memory to a VM --
virtio-mem -- reduce the section size to 128 MiB to allow for more
flexibility and reduce the metadata overhead when dealing with hot(un)plug
granularity smaller than 256 MiB.

128 MiB has been used by x86-64 since the very beginning. arm64 with 4k
base pages switched to 128 MiB as well: it's just big enough on these
architectures to allows for using a huge page (2 MiB) in the vmemmap in
sane setups with sizeof(struct page) == 64 bytes and a huge page mapping
in the direct mapping, while still allowing for small hot(un)plug
granularity.

For s390, we could even switch to a 64 MiB section size, as our huge page
size is 1 MiB: but the smaller the section size, the more sections we'll
have to manage especially on bigger machines. Making it consistent with
x86-64 and arm64 feels like the right thing for now.

Note that the smallest memory hot(un)plug granularity is also limited by
the memory block size, determined by extracting the memory increment
size from SCLP. Under QEMU/KVM, implementing virtio-mem, we expose 0;
therefore, we'll end up with a memory block size of 128 MiB with a
128 MiB section size.

Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241025141453.1210600-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
History 2024-11-07 10:26:24 +01:00
arch s390/sparsemem: Reduce section size to 128 MiB 2024-11-07 10:26:24 +01:00
block block-6.12-20241004 2024-10-04 10:43:44 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
Documentation Documentation: s390-diag.rst: Document diag500(STORAGE LIMIT) subfunction 2024-11-07 10:26:24 +01:00
drivers virtio-mem: s390 support 2024-11-07 10:26:24 +01:00
fs bcachefs fixes for 6.12-rc2 2024-10-05 15:18:04 -07:00
include Power management fixes for 6.12-rc2 2024-10-04 11:57:15 -07:00
init cfi: encode cfi normalized integers + kasan/gcov bug in Kconfig 2024-09-26 21:27:27 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/net: harden multishot termination case for recv 2024-09-30 08:26:59 -06:00
ipc struct fd layout change (and conversion to accessor helpers) 2024-09-23 09:35:36 -07:00
kernel Various fixes for tracing: 2024-10-04 12:11:06 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: Default STRICT_DEVMEM to "y" on s390 2024-11-07 10:26:24 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm, slab: suppress warnings in test_leak_destroy kunit test 2024-10-02 16:28:46 +02:00
net Including fixes from ieee802154, bluetooth and netfilter. 2024-10-03 09:44:00 -07:00
rust rust: kunit: use C-string literals to clean warning 2024-10-01 23:46:42 +02:00
samples [tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out 2024-09-27 08:18:43 -07:00
scripts kbuild: deb-pkg: Remove blank first line from maint scripts 2024-10-07 02:36:38 +09:00
security hardening fixes for v6.12-rc2 2024-10-05 10:19:14 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.12-rc2 2024-10-04 11:29:46 -07:00
tools ARM64: 2024-10-06 10:53:28 -07:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt x86: 2024-09-28 09:20:14 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.12 2024-09-24 13:02:06 -07:00
.mailmap Summary 2024-09-24 11:08:40 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Mark powerpc spufs as orphaned 2024-08-19 21:27:56 +10:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update and add s390 crypto related entries 2024-10-29 11:17:18 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.12-rc2 2024-10-06 15:32:27 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.