linux/Documentation/ABI/testing
Andi Kleen facb6011f3 HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support
This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page
offlining controlled from user space.  It doesn't kill anything, just
tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the
page away.

This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has
a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead
it can be offlined early and avoided.

The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic
entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too.

We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation
race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid
races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep().
This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about
to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work.
This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution
currently.

When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages
from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently
quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab
cache which might own the page. This could be potentially
improved later.

Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes.

[Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
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debugfs-kmemtrace kmemtrace: Fix typos in documentation. 2008-12-29 15:34:09 +02:00
debugfs-pktcdvd doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint 2009-04-13 15:04:33 -07:00
ima_policy integrity: IMA policy 2009-02-06 09:05:31 +11:00
procfs-diskstats tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
sysfs-block tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
sysfs-bus-css [S390] cio: Introduce modalias for css bus. 2008-07-14 10:02:05 +02:00
sysfs-bus-pci PCI: expose function reset capability in sysfs 2009-09-09 13:29:24 -07:00
sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys 2009-10-01 21:15:44 +02:00
sysfs-bus-umc uwb: document UWB and WUSB sysfs files 2008-09-17 16:54:35 +01:00
sysfs-bus-usb USB: add remove_id sysfs attr for usb drivers 2009-12-11 11:55:26 -08:00
sysfs-bus-usb-devices-usbsevseg USB: Added driver for a Delcom USB 7-segment LED Display 2008-10-17 14:40:51 -07:00
sysfs-c2port Add c2 port support 2008-11-12 17:17:18 -08:00
sysfs-class [PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation 2006-06-21 12:40:47 -07:00
sysfs-class-bdi fuse: fix bdi naming conflict 2008-05-24 09:56:07 -07:00
sysfs-class-lcd video/lcd: document sysfs interface 2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
sysfs-class-led led: document sysfs interface 2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
sysfs-class-mtd Documentation: add MTD sysfs docs 2009-05-29 15:13:04 +01:00
sysfs-class-pktcdvd [PATCH] pktcdvd: cleanup 2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
sysfs-class-regulator regulator: add get_status() 2009-03-31 09:56:20 +01:00
sysfs-class-uwb_rc uwb: add basic radio manager 2008-11-19 14:46:33 +00:00
sysfs-class-uwb_rc-wusbhc USB: wusb: add wusb_phy_rate sysfs file to host controllers 2009-12-11 11:55:16 -08:00
sysfs-dev sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor 2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
sysfs-devices [PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation 2006-06-21 12:40:47 -07:00
sysfs-devices-memory mm: add numa node symlink for memory section in sysfs 2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
sysfs-devices-system-cpu Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/node 2009-12-15 08:53:18 -08:00
sysfs-firmware-acpi ACPI: add /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/sci_not counter 2009-04-21 00:35:47 -04:00
sysfs-firmware-memmap Bernhard has moved 2009-02-18 15:37:56 -08:00
sysfs-firmware-sgi_uv sysfs: document files in /sys/firmware/sgi_uv/ 2008-09-02 19:21:40 -07:00
sysfs-fs-ext4 ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number 2009-06-13 11:45:35 -04:00
sysfs-gpio gpiolib: allow poll() on value 2009-09-23 07:39:48 -07:00
sysfs-ibft Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support 2008-04-19 19:10:28 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-mm mm: create /sys/kernel/mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages hugetlb: new sysfs interface 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
sysfs-kernel-slab slub: allow stats to be cleared 2009-10-15 21:34:12 +03:00
sysfs-kernel-uids Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory 2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
sysfs-memory-page-offline HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
sysfs-ocfs2 ocfs2: Document /sys/fs/ocfs2 2008-04-18 08:56:07 -07:00
sysfs-platform-asus-laptop asus-laptop: document sysfs interface 2009-08-28 15:21:13 -04:00
sysfs-platform-eeepc-laptop eeepc-laptop: document sysfs interface 2009-08-28 15:21:12 -04:00
sysfs-power [PATCH] swsusp: debugging 2006-11-03 12:27:58 -08:00
sysfs-pps LinuxPPS: core support 2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
sysfs-profiling profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
sysfs-wusb_cbaf uwb: document UWB and WUSB sysfs files 2008-09-17 16:54:35 +01:00