From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8A26B01E3 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 14:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:05:51 -0700 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC, 3/7] NUMA hotplug emulator Message-ID: <20100513180550.GA26440@suse.de> References: <20100513114835.GD2169@shaohui> <20100513165511.GB25212@suse.de> <1273773292.13285.7755.camel@nimitz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273773292.13285.7755.camel@nimitz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Dave Hansen Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Hidetoshi Seto , David Rientjes , Alex Chiang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@linux.intel.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com, haicheng.li@linux.intel.com, shaohui.zheng@linux.intel.com List-ID: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 09:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Add a sysfs entry "probe" under /sys/devices/system/node/: > > > > > > - to show all fake offlined nodes: > > > $ cat /sys/devices/system/node/probe > > > > > > - to hotadd a fake offlined node, e.g. nodeid is N: > > > $ echo N > /sys/devices/system/node/probe > > > > As you are trying to add a new sysfs file, please create the matching > > Documentation/ABI/ file as well. > > > > Also note that sysfs files are "one value per file", which I don't think > > this file follows, right? > > I think in this case, it was meant to be a list of acceptable parameters > rather than a set of values, kinda like /sys/power/state. Instead, I > guess we could have: > > /sys/devices/system/node/probeable/3 > /sys/devices/system/node/probeable/43 > /sys/devices/system/node/probeable/65 > /sys/devices/system/node/probeable/5145 > > and the knowledge that you need to pick one of those to echo > into /sys/devices/system/node/probe. But, it's a lot more self > explanatory if you 'cat /sys/devices/system/node/probe', and then pick > one of those to echo back into the file. > > Seems like a decent place to violate the "rule". :) How big would this "list" be? What will it look like exactly? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org