Re: [PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: add sysfs zones_online_to attribute

From: Toshi Kani
Date: Fri Aug 15 2014 - 17:47:52 EST


On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 12:10 +0800, Zhang Zhen wrote:
> Currently memory-hotplug has two limits:
> 1. If the memory block is in ZONE_NORMAL, you can change it to
> ZONE_MOVABLE, but this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE.
> 2. If the memory block is in ZONE_MOVABLE, you can change it to
> ZONE_NORMAL, but this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL.
>
> With this patch, we can easy to know a memory block can be onlined to
> which zone, and don't need to know the above two limits.
>
> Updated the related Documentation.
>
> Change v1 -> v2:
> - optimize the implementation following Dave Hansen's suggestion
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory | 8 ++++
> Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | 4 +-
> drivers/base/memory.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 +
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
> index 7405de2..2b2a1d7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory
> @@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ Users: hotplug memory remove tools
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/powerpc-utils
>
>
> +What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/zones_online_to

I think this name is a bit confusing. How about "valid_online_types"?

Thanks,
-Toshi



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