arm64: Add "remove" probe driver for memory hot-remove
Allows to remove sections of memory that have been previously offlined from userspace. This is symmetric to the "memory probe" interface, as described in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt. It can be used to manually notify the OS that one memory section has been removed. Please, remind that a memory section can only be removed after it has been logically off-lined; trying to remove a section which has not been previously off-lined is not supported and will have undefined (but most likely very bad) behaviour. To offline a section one can: To use the remove interface to remove the section: where 0xYYYYYY is the physical address of the memory section to remove. Change-Id: I1ab2fafe17b2697a5c667feae25c4ac0655f394e Signed-off-by:Andrea Reale <ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Maciej Bielski <m.bielski@virtualopensystems.com> Patch-mainline: linux-kernel @ 11 Apr 2017, 18:25 Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by:
Sudarshan Rajagopalan <sudaraja@codeaurora.org>
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