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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-11 18:05:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-11 18:05:37 -0800
commit608ff1a210ab0e8b969399039bf8e18693605910 (patch)
treefaea7bb1764461c73d0953089bd5439d91733a03 /Documentation
parent414a6750e59b0b687034764c464e9ddecac0f7a6 (diff)
parent74d42d8fe146e870c52bde3b1c692f86cc8ff844 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patchbomb)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "About half of most of MM. Going very early this time due to uncertainty over the coreautounifiednumasched things. I'll send the other half of most of MM tomorrow. The rest of MM awaits a slab merge from Pekka." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton: (71 commits) memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory drivers/base/node.c: cleanup node_state_attr[] bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem() avr32, kconfig: remove HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM mm: cma: remove watermark hacks mm: cma: skip watermarks check for already isolated blocks in split_free_page() mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short mm: cleanup register_node() mm, mempolicy: remove duplicate code mm/vmscan.c: try_to_freeze() returns boolean mm: introduce putback_movable_pages() virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c: s/COLOUR/COLOR/ ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt19
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 71c4da413444..a25cb3fafeba 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ Figure 1 shows the important aspects of the controller
3. Each page has a pointer to the page_cgroup, which in turn knows the
cgroup it belongs to
-The accounting is done as follows: mem_cgroup_charge() is invoked to set up
-the necessary data structures and check if the cgroup that is being charged
-is over its limit. If it is, then reclaim is invoked on the cgroup.
+The accounting is done as follows: mem_cgroup_charge_common() is invoked to
+set up the necessary data structures and check if the cgroup that is being
+charged is over its limit. If it is, then reclaim is invoked on the cgroup.
More details can be found in the reclaim section of this document.
If everything goes well, a page meta-data-structure called page_cgroup is
updated. page_cgroup has its own LRU on cgroup.
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 6d0c2519cf47..c6f993d491b5 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 +389,18 @@ 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;
}
start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory.
+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 is set node id when N_HIGH_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.
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