mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
that were previously not described there.

In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
this change.
Immediate:
  - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
    on which a defective DIMM is located.  This will reduce system
    downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
  - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
    previously offlined due to a defective DIMM.  This could happen
    during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
    onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
    to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
    node.  The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
    could be ugly.
  - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
    of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
Future:
  - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
    sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
    of a specific node.

Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems.  Symlink creation during physical
memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 1 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
+