linux-stable/include
Vitaly Kuznetsov 31bc3858ea memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory
Currently, all newly added memory blocks remain in 'offline' state
unless someone onlines them, some linux distributions carry special udev
rules like:

  SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online"

to make this happen automatically.  This is not a great solution for
virtual machines where memory hotplug is being used to address high
memory pressure situations as such onlining is slow and a userspace
process doing this (udev) has a chance of being killed by the OOM killer
as it will probably require to allocate some memory.

Introduce default policy for the newly added memory blocks in
/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks file with two possible
values: "offline" which preserves the current behavior and "online"
which causes all newly added memory blocks to go online as soon as
they're added.  The default is "offline".

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
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acpi ACPI / CPPC: remove redundant mbox_send_message() declaration 2016-02-03 01:09:52 +01:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'mm-readonly-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-14 16:58:50 -07:00
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drm drm/atomic: Allow for holes in connector state, v2. 2016-02-19 13:24:03 +10:00
dt-bindings clk: tegra: Add the APB2APE audio clock on Tegra210 2016-02-02 15:49:29 +01:00
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linux memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
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media [media] vb2: fix nasty vb2_thread regression 2016-02-04 09:13:46 -02:00
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net Another small set of fixes: 2016-02-24 16:58:12 -05:00
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target target/transport: add flag to indicate CPU Affinity is observed 2016-02-10 23:08:55 -08:00
trace mm, tracing: unify mm flags handling in tracepoints and printk 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
uapi media fixes for v4.5-rc8 2016-03-11 12:32:02 -08:00
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