Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756039Ab3GVDRM (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:17:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40712 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754160Ab3GVDRK (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:17:10 -0400 Message-ID: <51ECA3FE.5060703@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:16:14 +0800 From: Jason Wang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" CC: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, andi@firstfloor.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, yinghan@google.com, kay@vrfy.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: base: memory: Export symbols for onlining memory blocks References: <1374261785-1615-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> In-Reply-To: <1374261785-1615-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2699 Lines: 68 On 07/20/2013 03:23 AM, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > The current machinery for hot-adding memory requires having udev > rules to bring the memory segments online. Export the necessary functionality > to to bring the memory segment online without involving user space code. According to udev guys, udev won't provide unconditional, always enabled kernel policy in udev. This is really useful for driver to online the pages without user-space involvement. Acked-by: Jason Wang > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > --- > drivers/base/memory.c | 5 ++++- > include/linux/memory.h | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c > index 2b7813e..a8204ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/memory.c > +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c > @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static int __memory_block_change_state_uevent(struct memory_block *mem, > return ret; > } > > -static int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, > +int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, > unsigned long to_state, unsigned long from_state_req, > int online_type) > { > @@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ static int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, > > return ret; > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memory_block_change_state); > + > static ssize_t > store_mem_state(struct device *dev, > struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) > @@ -540,6 +542,7 @@ struct memory_block *find_memory_block(struct mem_section *section) > { > return find_memory_block_hinted(section, NULL); > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_memory_block); > > static struct attribute *memory_memblk_attrs[] = { > &dev_attr_phys_index.attr, > diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h > index 85c31a8..8e3ede5 100644 > --- a/include/linux/memory.h > +++ b/include/linux/memory.h > @@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ extern void unregister_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); > extern int register_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); > extern void unregister_memory_isolate_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); > extern int register_new_memory(int, struct mem_section *); > +extern int memory_block_change_state(struct memory_block *mem, > + unsigned long to_state, unsigned long from_state_req, > + int online_type); > + > #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE > extern int unregister_memory_section(struct mem_section *); > #endif -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/