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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-07-16 15:10:07 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-07-16 15:10:07 +0200 |
commit | d26fad5b38e1c4667d4f2604936e59c837caa54d (patch) | |
tree | 04b524a69a0129c181567445bff18847a1b44721 /Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | |
parent | e720fff6341fe4b95e5a93c939bd3c77fa55ced4 (diff) | |
parent | 1795cd9b3a91d4b5473c97f491d63892442212ab (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v3.16-rc5' into sched/core, to refresh the branch before applying bigger tree-wide changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt index f304edb8fbe7..45134dc23854 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt @@ -209,15 +209,12 @@ If memory device is found, memory hotplug code will be called. 4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand ------------ -On powerpc, the firmware does not notify a memory hotplug event to the kernel. -Therefore, "probe" interface is supported to notify the event to the kernel. -This interface depends on CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE. - -CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is supported on powerpc only. On x86, this config -option is disabled by default since ACPI notifies a memory hotplug event to -the kernel, which performs its hotplug operation as the result. Please -enable this option if you need the "probe" interface for testing purposes -on x86. +On some architectures, the firmware may not notify the kernel of a memory +hotplug event. Therefore, the memory "probe" interface is supported to +explicitly notify the kernel. This interface depends on +CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE and can be configured on powerpc, sh, and x86 +if hotplug is supported, although for x86 this should be handled by ACPI +notification. Probe interface is located at /sys/devices/system/memory/probe |