From 0c0e6195896535481173df98935ad8db174f4d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:26:12 -0700 Subject: memory unplug: page offline Logic. - set all pages in [start,end) as isolated migration-type. by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use. - Migrate all LRU pages in the range. - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not. Todo: - allocate migration destination page from better area. - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed.. (I don't like this kind of page but.. - Find out pages which cannot be migrated. - more running tests. - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/memory_hotplug.h') diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h index 0a14dad95453..665951ef0390 100644 --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ extern int add_one_highpage(struct page *page, int pfn, int bad_ppro); extern void online_page(struct page *page); /* VM interface that may be used by firmware interface */ extern int online_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long); - +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE +extern int offline_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long); +extern void __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long); +#endif /* reasonably generic interface to expand the physical pages in a zone */ extern int __add_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b