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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [REPOST #2] mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs
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On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 08:54 -0800, Gary Hade wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:16:15PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:48 -0800, Gary Hade wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Supersedes the "mm: show memory section to node relationship in sysfs"
> > > patch posted on 05 Sept 2008 which created node ID containing 'node'
> > > files in /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX instead of symlinks.
> > > Changed from files to symlinks due to feedback that symlinks were
> > > more consistent with the sysfs way.
> > >
> > > Supersedes the "mm: show node to memory section relationship with
> > > symlinks in sysfs" patch posted on 29 Sept 2008 to address a Yasunori
> > > Goto reported problem where an incorrect symlink was created due to
> > > a range of uninitialized pages at the beginning of a section. This
> > > problem which produced a symlink in /sys/devices/system/node/node0
> > > that incorrectly referenced a mem section located on node1 is corrected
> > > in this version. This version also covers the case were a mem section
> > > could span multiple nodes.
> > >
> > > Supersedes the "mm: show node to memory section relationship with
> > > symlinks in sysfs" patch posted on 09 Oct 2008 to add the Andrew
> > > Morton requested usefulness information and update to apply cleanly
> > > to 2.6.28-rc3 and 2.6-git. Code is unchanged.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
> > >
> >
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > While testing latest mmtom (which has this patch) ran into an issue
> > with sysfs files. What I noticed was, with this patch "memoryXX"
> > directories in /sys/devices/system/memory/ are not getting cleaned up.
> > Backing out the patch seems to fix the problem.
> >
> > When I tried to remove 64 blocks of memory, empty directories are
> > stayed around. (look at memory151 - memory215). This is causing OOPS
> > while trying to add memory block again. I think this could be because
> > of the symlink added from node directory. Can you look ?
>
> Badari, The call to unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() in
> remove_memory_block() preceding the removal of the files in
> the memory section directory _should have_ removed all the
> symlinks referencing the memory section directory. Did you
> happen to check to see if the symlinks to memory151-memory215
> were still present?
>
> Gary
>

Hi Gary,

As discussed earlier, patch is leaving an extra reference on the
memoryX directory. Needs a kobject_put() to match the reference
you get in find_memory_block().

Could you update the patch and resend it ?

Thanks,
Badari



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