Re: Proposal to realize hot-add *several sections one time*

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2014, Zhang Zhen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Now we can hot-add memory by
> 
> % echo start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
> 
> Then, [start_address_of_new_memory, start_address_of_new_memory +
> memory_block_size] memory range is hot-added.
> 
> But we can only hot-add *one section one time* by this way.
> Whether we can add an argument on behalf of the count of the sections to add ?
> So we can can hot-add *several sections one time*. Just like:
> 

Not necessarily true, it depends on sections_per_block.  Don't believe 
Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt that suggests this is only for powerpc, 
x86 and sh allow this interface as well.

> % echo start_address_of_new_memory count_of_sections > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe
> 
> Then, [start_address_of_new_memory, start_address_of_new_memory +
> count_of_sections * memory_block_size] memory range is hot-added.
> 
> If this proposal is reasonable, i will send a patch to realize it.
> 

The problem is knowing how much memory is being onlined so that you can 
definitively determine what count_of_sections should be.  The number of 
pages per memory section depends on PAGE_SIZE and SECTION_SIZE_BITS which 
differ depending on the architectures that support this interface.  So if 
you support count_of_sections, it would return errno even though you have 
onlined some sections.

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