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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2007-10-16 01:26:12 -0700 | 
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-16 09:43:02 -0700 | 
| commit | 0c0e6195896535481173df98935ad8db174f4d45 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b35d3b81ba54b5d38e691d2a2019f4bcdfd1dce /include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | |
| parent | a5d76b54a3f3a40385d7f76069a2feac9f1bad63 (diff) | |
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memory unplug: page offline
Logic.
 - set all pages in  [start,end)  as isolated migration-type.
   by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use.
 - Migrate all LRU pages in the range.
 - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not.
Todo:
 - allocate migration destination page from better area.
 - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed..
 (I don't like this kind of page but..
 - Find out pages which cannot be migrated.
 - more running tests.
 - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memory_hotplug.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 5 | 
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h index 0a14dad9545..665951ef039 100644 --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h @@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ extern int add_one_highpage(struct page *page, int pfn, int bad_ppro);  extern void online_page(struct page *page);  /* VM interface that may be used by firmware interface */  extern int online_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long); - +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE +extern int offline_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long); +extern void __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long); +#endif  /* reasonably generic interface to expand the physical pages in a zone  */  extern int __add_pages(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,  	unsigned long nr_pages);  |