Re: [patch 2/2 v2] mm: add node hotplug emulation

Greg KH
2010-11-22T01:12:52Z

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 03:08:17PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> Add an interface to allow new nodes to be added when performing memory
> hot-add. This provides a convenient interface to test memory hotplug
> notifier callbacks and surrounding hotplug code when new nodes are
> onlined without actually having a machine with such hotpluggable SRAT
> entries.
>
> This adds a new debugfs interface at /sys/kernel/debug/hotplug/add_node

The rule for debugfs is "there are no rules", but perhaps you might want
to name "hotplug" a bit more specific for what you are doing? "hotplug"
means pretty much anything these days, so how about s/hotplug/node/
instead as that is what you are controlling.

Just a suggestion...

greg k-h