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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] memory driver: make phys_index/end_phys_index reflect the start/end section number
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:09:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533C362E.1020605@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396429018.2913.19.camel@ThinkPad-T5421.cn.ibm.com>

On 04/02/2014 01:56 AM, Li Zhong wrote:
> I noticed the phys_index and end_phys_index under 
> /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/ have the same value, e.g.
> (for the test machine, one memory block has 8 sections, that is 
>  sections_per_block equals 8)
> 
> # cd /sys/devices/system/memory/memory100/
> # cat phys_index end_phys_index 
> 00000064
> 00000064
> 
> Seems they should reflect the start/end section number respectively, which 
> also matches what is said in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt

This changes a user-visible interface.  Won't this break userspace?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02  8:56 Li Zhong
2014-04-02 16:09 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-04-03  1:50   ` Li Zhong
2014-04-03 22:41   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2014-04-03  1:37 ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-03  2:37   ` Li Zhong
2014-04-03  3:06     ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-03  6:45       ` Li Zhong
2014-04-04  1:29 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2014-04-08  8:27   ` Li Zhong
2014-04-08 16:13     ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-08 18:23       ` Nathan Fontenot
2014-04-08 19:47         ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-09  9:20           ` Li Zhong
2014-04-09 15:49             ` Dave Hansen
2014-04-09 16:16               ` Nathan Fontenot
2014-04-10  3:14               ` Li Zhong
2014-04-10  3:47                 ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-09 16:20           ` Nathan Fontenot
2014-04-09 17:39           ` Nathan Fontenot
2014-04-10  1:03             ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-10  4:17             ` Li Zhong
2014-04-11 18:54               ` Nathan Fontenot
2014-04-14  8:43                 ` [RFC PATCH v2] memory-hotplug: Update documentation to hide information about SECTIONS and remove end_phys_index Li Zhong
2014-04-14  9:13                   ` Zhang Yanfei
2014-04-15  2:49                     ` Li Zhong
2014-04-16  1:49                     ` [RFC PATCH v3] " Li Zhong

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