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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory | 51 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | 16 |
2 files changed, 63 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory index 7a16fe1e2270..9fe91c02ee40 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Description: internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove operations. - Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ @@ -19,6 +18,56 @@ Description: This is useful for a user-level agent to determine identify removable sections of the memory before attempting potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation +Users: hotplug memory remove tools + https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ + +What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device +Date: September 2008 +Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> +Description: + The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device + is read-only and is designed to show the name of physical + memory device. Implementation is currently incomplete. +What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index +Date: September 2008 +Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> +Description: + The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index + is read-only and contains the section ID in hexadecimal + which is equivalent to decimal X contained in the + memory section directory name. + +What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state +Date: September 2008 +Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> +Description: + The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state + is read-write. When read, it's contents show the + online/offline state of the memory section. When written, + root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable + memory section (see removable file description above) + using the following commands. + # echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state + # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state + + For example, if /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/removable + contains a value of 1 and + /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state contains the + string "online" the following command can be executed by + by root to offline that section. + # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state Users: hotplug memory remove tools https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY +Date: September 2008 +Contact: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> +Description: + When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled + /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY is a symbolic link that + points to the corresponding /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryY + memory section directory. For example, the following symbolic + link is created for memory section 9 on node0. + /sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9 + diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt index 168117bd6ee8..4c2ecf537a4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config options. This option can be kernel module too. -------------------------------- -3 sysfs files for memory hotplug +4 sysfs files for memory hotplug -------------------------------- All sections have their device information under /sys/devices/system/memory as @@ -138,11 +138,12 @@ For example, assume 1GiB section size. A device for a memory starting at (0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4) This device covers address range [0x100000000 ... 0x140000000) -Under each section, you can see 3 files. +Under each section, you can see 4 files. /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state +/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable 'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id, same as XXX. 'state' : read-write @@ -150,10 +151,20 @@ Under each section, you can see 3 files. at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command 'phys_device': read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory device. This is not well implemented now. +'removable' : read-only: contains an integer value indicating + whether the memory section is removable or not + removable. A value of 1 indicates that the memory + section is removable and a value of 0 indicates that + it is not removable. NOTE: These directories/files appear after physical memory hotplug phase. +If CONFIG_NUMA is enabled the +/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX memory section +directories can also be accessed via symbolic links located in +the /sys/devices/system/node/node* directories. For example: +/sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9 -------------------------------- 4. Physical memory hot-add phase @@ -365,7 +376,6 @@ node if necessary. - allowing memory hot-add to ZONE_MOVABLE. maybe we need some switch like sysctl or new control file. - showing memory section and physical device relationship. - - showing memory section and node relationship (maybe good for NUMA) - showing memory section is under ZONE_MOVABLE or not - test and make it better memory offlining. - support HugeTLB page migration and offlining. |