Re: [PATCH] mm/memory-hotplug: Add sysfs hot-remove trigger

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 2019-02-06 6:45 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 05:03:53PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is a useful thing for testing and debugging hotplug,
>> but being able to exercise the (arguably trickier) hot-remove path would
>> be even more useful. Extend the feature to allow removal of offline
>> sections to be triggered manually to aid development.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> This is inspired by a previous proposal[1], but in coming up with a
>> more robust interface I ended up rewriting the whole thing from
>> scratch. The lack of documentation is semi-deliberate, since I don't
>> like the idea of anyone actually relying on this interface as ABI, but
>> as a handy tool it felt useful enough to be worth sharing :)
>>
>> Robin.
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/22d34fe30df0fbacbfceeb47e20cb1184af73585.1511433386.git.ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com/
>>
>>   drivers/base/memory.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> You have to add new Documentation/ABI entries for each new sysfs file
> you add :(

Ah, the documentation provided is adapted from the documentation for the 
existing "probe" attribute it builds upon ;)

But yeah, perhaps I should have tagged this post as an RFC. Much as I 
dislike it being anywhere near an ABI, if everyone thinks the feature is 
merge-worthy I'll go ahead and write up some proper doc entries too.

Robin.