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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rafael@kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-hotplug: Add sysfs hot-remove trigger
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 19:45:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190206184544.GA12326@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29ed519902512319bcc62e071d52b712fa97e306.1549469965.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 05:03:53PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is a useful thing for testing and debugging hotplug,
> but being able to exercise the (arguably trickier) hot-remove path would
> be even more useful. Extend the feature to allow removal of offline
> sections to be triggered manually to aid development.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
> ---
> 
> This is inspired by a previous proposal[1], but in coming up with a
> more robust interface I ended up rewriting the whole thing from
> scratch. The lack of documentation is semi-deliberate, since I don't
> like the idea of anyone actually relying on this interface as ABI, but
> as a handy tool it felt useful enough to be worth sharing :)
> 
> Robin.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/22d34fe30df0fbacbfceeb47e20cb1184af73585.1511433386.git.ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
> 
>  drivers/base/memory.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

You have to add new Documentation/ABI entries for each new sysfs file
you add :(


  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-06 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-06 17:03 Robin Murphy
2019-02-06 18:45 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-02-06 20:07   ` Robin Murphy
2019-02-07 13:36 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-02-07 15:32   ` Robin Murphy
2019-02-08  3:03     ` Anshuman Khandual

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