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| author | Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> | 2016-03-15 14:56:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -0700 |
| commit | 31bc3858ea3ebcc3157b3f5f0e624c5962f5a7a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 85b88976d85135ad518de3aa47cfef6e826d3917 /include/linux/memory.h | |
| parent | 9cb65bc3b1114004e2ccee5939031325c7bf16e8 (diff) | |
memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory
Currently, all newly added memory blocks remain in 'offline' state
unless someone onlines them, some linux distributions carry special udev
rules like:
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online"
to make this happen automatically. This is not a great solution for
virtual machines where memory hotplug is being used to address high
memory pressure situations as such onlining is slow and a userspace
process doing this (udev) has a chance of being killed by the OOM killer
as it will probably require to allocate some memory.
Introduce default policy for the newly added memory blocks in
/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks file with two possible
values: "offline" which preserves the current behavior and "online"
which causes all newly added memory blocks to go online as soon as
they're added. The default is "offline".
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memory.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memory.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h index 8b8d8d12348e..82730adba950 100644 --- a/include/linux/memory.h +++ b/include/linux/memory.h @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ extern void unregister_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int register_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern void unregister_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern int register_new_memory(int, struct mem_section *); +extern int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, + unsigned long to_state, + unsigned long from_state_req); #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE extern int unregister_memory_section(struct mem_section *); #endif |