memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove

Memory may be hot-removed on a per-memory-block basis, particularly on
POWER where the SPARSEMEM section size often matches the memory-block
size.  A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections of
memory are likely to be removable before attempting the potentially
expensive operation.  This patch adds a file called "removable" to the
memory directory in sysfs to help such an agent.  In this patch, a memory
block is considered removable if;

o It contains only MOVABLE pageblocks
o It contains only pageblocks with free pages regardless of pageblock type

On the other hand, a memory block starting with a PageReserved() page will
never be considered removable.  Without this patch, the user-agent is
forced to choose a memory block to remove randomly.

Sample output of the sysfs files:

./memory/memory0/removable: 0
./memory/memory1/removable: 0
./memory/memory2/removable: 0
./memory/memory3/removable: 0
./memory/memory4/removable: 0
./memory/memory5/removable: 0
./memory/memory6/removable: 0
./memory/memory7/removable: 1
./memory/memory8/removable: 0
./memory/memory9/removable: 0
./memory/memory10/removable: 0
./memory/memory11/removable: 0
./memory/memory12/removable: 0
./memory/memory13/removable: 0
./memory/memory14/removable: 0
./memory/memory15/removable: 0
./memory/memory16/removable: 0
./memory/memory17/removable: 1
./memory/memory18/removable: 1
./memory/memory19/removable: 1
./memory/memory20/removable: 1
./memory/memory21/removable: 1
./memory/memory22/removable: 1

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 3628e5088f64..763ba81fc0f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -199,6 +199,18 @@ extern int walk_memory_resource(unsigned long start_pfn,
 			unsigned long nr_pages, void *arg,
 			int (*func)(unsigned long, unsigned long, void *));
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+
+extern int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
+
+#else
+static inline int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn,
+					unsigned long nr_pages)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
+
 extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
 extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size);
 extern int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size);