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authorBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>2008-07-23 21:28:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:21 -0700
commit5c755e9fd813810680abd56ec09a5f90143e815b (patch)
tree1686c0666f6bd630441957a53c546d90b0f61723 /include/linux
parent2f7f24eca31c4fc2fdb134b2ef743ccd67cfb9a9 (diff)
memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove
Memory may be hot-removed on a per-memory-block basis, particularly on POWER where the SPARSEMEM section size often matches the memory-block size. A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections of memory are likely to be removable before attempting the potentially expensive operation. This patch adds a file called "removable" to the memory directory in sysfs to help such an agent. In this patch, a memory block is considered removable if; o It contains only MOVABLE pageblocks o It contains only pageblocks with free pages regardless of pageblock type On the other hand, a memory block starting with a PageReserved() page will never be considered removable. Without this patch, the user-agent is forced to choose a memory block to remove randomly. Sample output of the sysfs files: ./memory/memory0/removable: 0 ./memory/memory1/removable: 0 ./memory/memory2/removable: 0 ./memory/memory3/removable: 0 ./memory/memory4/removable: 0 ./memory/memory5/removable: 0 ./memory/memory6/removable: 0 ./memory/memory7/removable: 1 ./memory/memory8/removable: 0 ./memory/memory9/removable: 0 ./memory/memory10/removable: 0 ./memory/memory11/removable: 0 ./memory/memory12/removable: 0 ./memory/memory13/removable: 0 ./memory/memory14/removable: 0 ./memory/memory15/removable: 0 ./memory/memory16/removable: 0 ./memory/memory17/removable: 1 ./memory/memory18/removable: 1 ./memory/memory19/removable: 1 ./memory/memory20/removable: 1 ./memory/memory21/removable: 1 ./memory/memory22/removable: 1 Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memory_hotplug.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 3628e5088f6..763ba81fc0f 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -199,6 +199,18 @@ extern int walk_memory_resource(unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, void *arg,
int (*func)(unsigned long, unsigned long, void *));
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+
+extern int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
+
+#else
+static inline int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn,
+ unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
+
extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
extern int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);