Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory

   1 What:           /sys/devices/system/memory
   2 Date:           June 2008
   3 Contact:        Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
   4 Description:
   5                 The /sys/devices/system/memory contains a snapshot of the
   6                 internal state of the kernel memory blocks. Files could be
   7                 added or removed dynamically to represent hot-add/remove
   8                 operations.
   9 Users:          hotplug memory add/remove tools
  10                 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/powerpc-utils
  11
  12 What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
  13 Date:           June 2008
  14 Contact:        Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
  15 Description:
  16                 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/removable
  17                 indicates whether this memory block is removable or not.
  18                 This is useful for a user-level agent to determine
  19                 identify removable sections of the memory before attempting
  20                 potentially expensive hot-remove memory operation
  21 Users:          hotplug memory remove tools
  22                 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/powerpc-utils
  23
  24 What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
  25 Date:           September 2008
  26 Contact:        Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
  27 Description:
  28                 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device
  29                 is read-only and is designed to show the name of physical
  30                 memory device.  Implementation is currently incomplete.
  31
  32 What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
  33 Date:           September 2008
  34 Contact:        Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
  35 Description:
  36                 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_index
  37                 is read-only and contains the section ID in hexadecimal
  38                 which is equivalent to decimal X contained in the
  39                 memory section directory name.
  40
  41 What:           /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
  42 Date:           September 2008
  43 Contact:        Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
  44 Description:
  45                 The file /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
  46                 is read-write.  When read, its contents show the
  47                 online/offline state of the memory section.  When written,
  48                 root can toggle the the online/offline state of a removable
  49                 memory section (see removable file description above)
  50                 using the following commands.
  51                 # echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
  52                 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state
  53
  54                 For example, if /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/removable
  55                 contains a value of 1 and
  56                 /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state contains the
  57                 string "online" the following command can be executed by
  58                 by root to offline that section.
  59                 # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory22/state
  60 Users:          hotplug memory remove tools
  61                 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/LinuxP/powerpc-utils
  62
  63
  64 What:           /sys/devices/system/memoryX/nodeY
  65 Date:           October 2009
  66 Contact:        Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
  67 Description:
  68                 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, a symbolic link that
  69                 points to the corresponding NUMA node directory.
  70
  71                 For example, the following symbolic link is created for
  72                 memory section 9 on node0:
  73                 /sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/node0 -> ../../node/node0
  74
  75
  76 What:           /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY
  77 Date:           September 2008
  78 Contact:        Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
  79 Description:
  80                 When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled
  81                 /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY is a symbolic link that
  82                 points to the corresponding /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryY
  83                 memory section directory.  For example, the following symbolic
  84                 link is created for memory section 9 on node0.
  85                 /sys/devices/system/node/node0/memory9 -> ../../memory/memory9