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It is now allowed to use persistent memory like a regular RAM, but currently there is no way to remove this memory until machine is rebooted. This work expands the functionality to also allows hotremoving previously hotplugged persistent memory, and recover the device for use for other purposes. To hotremove persistent memory, the management software must first offline all memory blocks of dax region, and than unbind it from device-dax/kmem driver. So, operations should look like this: echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryN/state ... echo dax0.0 > /sys/bus/dax/drivers/kmem/unbind Note: if unbind is done without offlining memory beforehand, it won't be possible to do dax0.0 hotremove, and dax's memory is going to be part of System RAM until reboot. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517215438.6487-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.