mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
that were previously not described there.

In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
this change.
Immediate:
  - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
    on which a defective DIMM is located.  This will reduce system
    downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
  - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
    previously offlined due to a defective DIMM.  This could happen
    during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
    onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
    to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
    node.  The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
    could be ugly.
  - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
    of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
Future:
  - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
    sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
    of a specific node.

Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems.  Symlink creation during physical
memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/node.h b/include/linux/node.h
index bc001bc225c3..681a697b9a86 100644
--- a/include/linux/node.h
+++ b/include/linux/node.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct node {
 	struct sys_device	sysdev;
 };
 
+struct memory_block;
 extern struct node node_devices[];
 
 extern int register_node(struct node *, int, struct node *);
@@ -35,6 +36,9 @@ extern int register_one_node(int nid);
 extern void unregister_one_node(int nid);
 extern int register_cpu_under_node(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int nid);
 extern int unregister_cpu_under_node(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int nid);
+extern int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk,
+						int nid);
+extern int unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk);
 #else
 static inline int register_one_node(int nid)
 {
@@ -52,6 +56,15 @@ static inline int unregister_cpu_under_node(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int nid)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+static inline int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk,
+							int nid)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+static inline int unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #define to_node(sys_device) container_of(sys_device, struct node, sysdev)