Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3 V1] mm, memory-hotplug: add online_movable
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-07-04 14:58:41
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:26:18PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
When a memoryblock is onlined by "online_movable", the kernel will not have directly reference to the page of the memoryblock, thus we can remove that memory any time when needed. It makes things easy when we dynamic hot-add/remove memory, make better utilities of memories.
As you are changing the kernel/user API here, please update Documentation/ABI with the proper sysfs file changes at the same time. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>