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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406111503050.27885@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:08:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@...wei.com>
cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal to realize hot-add *several sections one time*

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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