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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt index 6d0c2519cf47..8e5eacbdcfa3 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ a recent addition and not present on older kernels. in the memory block. 'state' : read-write at read: contains online/offline state of memory. - at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command + at write: user can specify "online_kernel", + "online_movable", "online", "offline" command which will be performed on al sections in the block. 'phys_device' : read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory device. This is not well implemented now. @@ -255,6 +256,17 @@ For onlining, you have to write "online" to the section's state file as: % echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state +This onlining will not change the ZONE type of the target memory section, +If the memory section is in ZONE_NORMAL, you can change it to ZONE_MOVABLE: + +% echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state +(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE) + +And if the memory section is in ZONE_MOVABLE, you can change it to ZONE_NORMAL: + +% echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state +(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL) + After this, section memoryXXX's state will be 'online' and the amount of available memory will be increased. @@ -377,15 +389,21 @@ The third argument is passed by pointer of struct memory_notify. struct memory_notify { unsigned long start_pfn; unsigned long nr_pages; + int status_change_nid_normal; + int status_change_nid_high; int status_change_nid; } start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory. nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory. -status_change_nid is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be) +status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask +is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. +status_change_nid_high is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask +is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. +status_change_nid is set node id when N_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be) set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed. -If status_changed_nid >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the +If status_changed_nid* >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the node if necessary. -------------- |