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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory51
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt16
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:
6 internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be 6 internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be
7 added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove 7 added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove
8 operations. 8 operations.
9
10Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools 9Users: hotplug memory add/remove tools
11 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ 10 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
12 11
@@ -19,6 +18,56 @@ Description:
19 This is useful for a user-level agent to determine 18 This is useful for a user-level agent to determine
20 identify removable sections of the memory before attempting 19 identify removable sections of the memory before attempting
21 potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation 20 potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation
21Users: hotplug memory remove tools
22 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
23
24What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
25Date: September 2008
26Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
27Description:
28 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
29 is read-only and is designed to show the name of physical
30 memory device. Implementation is currently incomplete.
22 31
32What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
33Date: September 2008
34Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
35Description:
36 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
37 is read-only and contains the section ID in hexadecimal
38 which is equivalent to decimal X contained in the
39 memory section directory name.
40
41What: /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
42Date: September 2008
43Contact: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
44Description:
45 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
46 is read-write. When read, it's contents show the
47 online/offline state of the memory section. When written,
48 root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable
49 memory section (see removable file description above)
50 using the following commands.
51 # echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
52 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
53
54 For example, if /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/removable
55 contains a value of 1 and
56 /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state contains the
57 string "online" the following command can be executed by
58 by root to offline that section.
59 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state
23Users: hotplug memory remove tools 60Users: hotplug memory remove tools
24 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/ 61 https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/powerpc-utils/
62
63What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY
64Date: September 2008
65Contact: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
66Description:
67 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled
68 /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY is a symbolic link that
69 points to the corresponding /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryY
70 memory section directory. For example, the following symbolic
71 link is created for memory section 9 on node0.
72 /sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9
73
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.
124 This option can be kernel module too. 124 This option can be kernel module too.
125 125
126-------------------------------- 126--------------------------------
1273 sysfs files for memory hotplug 1274 sysfs files for memory hotplug
128-------------------------------- 128--------------------------------
129All sections have their device information under /sys/devices/system/memory as 129All sections have their device information under /sys/devices/system/memory as
130 130
@@ -138,11 +138,12 @@ For example, assume 1GiB section size. A device for a memory starting at
138(0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4) 138(0x100000000 / 1Gib = 4)
139This device covers address range [0x100000000 ... 0x140000000) 139This device covers address range [0x100000000 ... 0x140000000)
140 140
141Under each section, you can see 3 files. 141Under each section, you can see 4 files.
142 142
143/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index 143/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_index
144/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device 144/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/phys_device
145/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state 145/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
146/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/removable
146 147
147'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id, same as XXX. 148'phys_index' : read-only and contains section id, same as XXX.
148'state' : read-write 149'state' : read-write
@@ -150,10 +151,20 @@ Under each section, you can see 3 files.
150 at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command 151 at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command
151'phys_device': read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory device. 152'phys_device': read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory device.
152 This is not well implemented now. 153 This is not well implemented now.
154'removable' : read-only: contains an integer value indicating
155 whether the memory section is removable or not
156 removable. A value of 1 indicates that the memory
157 section is removable and a value of 0 indicates that
158 it is not removable.
153 159
154NOTE: 160NOTE:
155 These directories/files appear after physical memory hotplug phase. 161 These directories/files appear after physical memory hotplug phase.
156 162
163If CONFIG_NUMA is enabled the
164/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX memory section
165directories can also be accessed via symbolic links located in
166the /sys/devices/system/node/node* directories. For example:
167/sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9
157 168
158-------------------------------- 169--------------------------------
1594. Physical memory hot-add phase 1704. Physical memory hot-add phase
@@ -365,7 +376,6 @@ node if necessary.
365 - allowing memory hot-add to ZONE_MOVABLE. maybe we need some switch like 376 - allowing memory hot-add to ZONE_MOVABLE. maybe we need some switch like
366 sysctl or new control file. 377 sysctl or new control file.
367 - showing memory section and physical device relationship. 378 - showing memory section and physical device relationship.
368 - showing memory section and node relationship (maybe good for NUMA)
369 - showing memory section is under ZONE_MOVABLE or not 379 - showing memory section is under ZONE_MOVABLE or not
370 - test and make it better memory offlining. 380 - test and make it better memory offlining.
371 - support HugeTLB page migration and offlining. 381 - support HugeTLB page migration and offlining.