For removing memory, we need to remove page tables.  But it depends on
architecture.  So the patch introduce arch_remove_memory() for removing
page table.  Now it only calls __remove_pages().

Note: __remove_pages() for some archtecuture is not implemented
      (I don't know how to implement it for s390).
Signed-off-by: NWen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NTang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The only function of memblock_analyze() is now allowing resize of
memblock region arrays.  Rename it to memblock_allow_resize() and
update its users.

* The following users remain the same other than renaming.

  arm/mm/init.c::arm_memblock_init()
  microblaze/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
  powerpc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
  openrisc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
  sh/mm/init.c::paging_init()
  sparc/mm/init_64.c::paging_init()
  unicore32/mm/init.c::uc32_memblock_init()

* In the following users, analyze was used to update total size which
  is no longer necessary.

  powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c::reserve_crashkernel()
  powerpc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
  powerpc/mm/init_32.c::MMU_init()
  powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c::__early_init_mmu()  
  powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c::ps3_mm_add_memory()
  powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/wii.c::wii_memory_fixups()
  sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c::reserve_crashkernel()

* x86/kernel/e820.c::memblock_x86_fill() was directly setting
  memblock_can_resize before populating memblock and calling analyze
  afterwards.  Call memblock_allow_resize() before start populating.

memblock_can_resize is now static inside memblock.c.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

memblock_init() initializes arrays for regions and memblock itself;
however, all these can be done with struct initializers and
memblock_init() can be removed.  This patch kills memblock_init() and
initializes memblock with struct initializer.

The only difference is that the first dummy entries don't have .nid
set to MAX_NUMNODES initially.  This doesn't cause any behavior
difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

Add PHYSICAL_START kernel configuration parameter to set the address at
which the kernel should be loaded.

It has been observed on an sh7757lcr that simply modifying MEMORY_START
does not achieve this goal for 32bit sh. This is due to MEMORY_OFFSET in
arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S bot being based on MEMORY_START on such
systems.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Fold all the mmu_gather rework patches into one for submission
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This adds in a callback to the machvec to allow platforms to do early
reservations through memblock.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

We need to round memory regions correctly -- specifically, we need to
round reserved region in the more expansive direction (lower limit
down, upper limit up) whereas usable memory regions need to be rounded
in the more restrictive direction (lower limit up, upper limit down).

This introduces two set of inlines:

	memblock_region_memory_base_pfn()
	memblock_region_memory_end_pfn()
	memblock_region_reserved_base_pfn()
	memblock_region_reserved_end_pfn()

Although they are antisymmetric (and therefore are technically
duplicates) the use of the different inlines explicitly documents the
programmer's intention.

The lack of proper rounding caused a bug on ARM, which was then found
to also affect other architectures.
Reported-by: NRussell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CB4CDFD.4020105@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

CC: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

via following scripts

      FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

      sed -i \
        -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
        -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
        $FILES

      for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
        M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
        mv $N $M
      done

and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

page_table_range_init() presently allocates a PUD page for the 3-level
page table case on X2 TLB configurations on each successive call. This
results in the previous PUD page being trampled when PMDs with an
overlapping PUD are initialized. This case was triggered by putting
persistent kmaps immediately below the fixmap range for highmem.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

The reserve_crashkernel() definition is in asm/kexec.h which is only
dragged in via linux/kexec.h if CONFIG_KEXEC is set. Just switch over to
asm/kexec.h unconditionally to fix up the build.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This reworks much of the bootmem setup and initialization code allowing
us to get rid of duplicate work between the NUMA and non-NUMA cases. The
end result is that we end up with a much more flexible interface for
supporting more complex topologies (fake NUMA, highmem, etc, etc.) which
is entirely LMB backed. This is an incremental step for more NUMA work as
well as gradually enabling migration off of bootmem entirely.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This plugs in a memory init callback in the machvec to permit boards to
wire up various bits of memory directly in to LMB. A generic machvec
implementation is provided that simply wraps around the normal
Kconfig-derived memory start/size.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

This implements a bit of rework for the PMB code, which permits us to
kill off the legacy PMB mode completely. Rather than trusting the boot
loader to do the right thing, we do a quick verification of the PMB
contents to determine whether to have the kernel setup the initial
mappings or whether it needs to mangle them later on instead.

If we're booting from legacy mappings, the kernel will now take control
of them and make them match the kernel's initial mapping configuration.
This is accomplished by breaking the initialization phase out in to
multiple steps: synchronization, merging, and resizing. With the recent
rework, the synchronization code establishes page links for compound
mappings already, so we build on top of this for promoting mappings and
reclaiming unused slots.

At the same time, the changes introduced for the uncached helpers also
permit us to dynamically resize the uncached mapping without any
particular headaches. The smallest page size is more than sufficient for
mapping all of kernel text, and as we're careful not to jump to any far
off locations in the setup code the mapping can safely be resized
regardless of whether we are executing from it or not.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This adds some helper routines for uncached mapping support. This
simplifies some of the cases where we need to check the uncached mapping
boundaries in addition to giving us a centralized location for building
more complex manipulation on top of.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This splits out the uncached mapping support under its own config option,
presently only used by 29-bit mode and 32-bit + PMB. This will make it
possible to optionally add an uncached mapping on sh64 as well as booting
without an uncached mapping for 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Now that cached_to_uncached works as advertized in 32-bit mode and we're
never going to be able to map < 16MB anyways, there's no need for the
special uncached section. Kill it off.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This provides a variable for tracking the uncached mapping size, and uses
it for pretty printing the uncached lowmem range. Beyond this, we'll also
be building on top of this for figuring out from where the remainder of
P2 becomes usable when constructing unrelated mappings.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This cribs the pretty printing from arch/x86/mm/init_32.c to dump the
virtual memory layout on boot. This is primarily intended as a debugging
aid, given that the newer CPUs have full control over their address space
and as such have little to nothing in common with the legacy layout.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Presently __in_29bit_mode() is only defined for the PMB case, but
it's also easily derived from the CONFIG_29BIT and CONFIG_32BIT &&
CONFIG_PMB=n cases.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

The plans for _PAGE_WIRED were detailed in a comment with the fixmap
code, but as it's now all taken care of, we no longer have any reason for
keeping it around, particularly since it's no longer accurate. Kill it
off.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This adds in a mem_init_done to work out when a standard ioremap() is
possible, falling back to the fixmap based ioremap otherwise.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Generalise the code for setting and clearing pte's and allow TLB entries
to be pinned and unpinned if the _PAGE_WIRED flag is present.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>

Presently the thread_info allocators are special cased, depending on
THREAD_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT. This provides a sensible definition for them
regardless of configuration, in preparation for extended CPU state.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

If using 64-bit PTEs and 4K pages then each page table has 512 entries
(as opposed to 1024 entries with 32-bit PTEs). Unlike MIPS, SH follows
the convention that all structures in the page table (pgd_t, pmd_t,
pgprot_t, etc) must be the same size. Therefore, 64-bit PTEs require
64-bit PGD entries, etc. Using 2-levels of page tables and 64-bit PTEs
it is only possible to map 1GB of virtual address space.

In order to map all 4GB of virtual address space we need to adopt a
3-level page table layout. This actually works out better for
CONFIG_SUPERH32 because we only waste 2 PGD entries on the P1 and P2
areas (which are untranslated) instead of 256.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Presently this was tacked on to the dma debug init bits from
fs_initcall(), which is far too late for devices setting up their own
per-device coherent areas.

Throw this in the beginning of mem_init(), as per the x86 iommu
allocation.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

To allow the MMU to be switched between 29bit and 32bit mode at runtime
some constants need to swapped for functions that return a runtime
value.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

For /proc/kcore, each arch registers its memory range by kclist_add().
In usual,

	- range of physical memory
	- range of vmalloc area
	- text, etc...

are registered but "range of physical memory" has some troubles.  It
doesn't updated at memory hotplug and it tend to include unnecessary
memory holes.  Now, /proc/iomem (kernel/resource.c) includes required
physical memory range information and it's properly updated at memory
hotplug.  Then, it's good to avoid using its own code(duplicating
information) and to rebuild kclist for physical memory based on
/proc/iomem.
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For /proc/kcore, vmalloc areas are registered per arch.  But, all of them
registers same range of [VMALLOC_START...VMALLOC_END) This patch unifies
them.  By this.  archs which have no kclist_add() hooks can see vmalloc
area correctly.
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Presently, kclist_add() only eats start address and size as its arguments.
Considering to make kclist dynamically reconfigulable, it's necessary to
know which kclists are for System RAM and which are not.

This patch add kclist types as
  KCORE_RAM
  KCORE_VMALLOC
  KCORE_TEXT
  KCORE_OTHER

This "type" is used in a patch following this for detecting KCORE_RAM.
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 96177299 ("Drop free_pages()")
modified nr_free_pages() to return 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned
int'.  This made the casts to 'unsigned long' in most callers superfluous,
so remove them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <zankel@tensilica.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes up the kmap_coherent/kunmap_coherent() interface for recent
changes both in the page fault path and the shared cache flushers, as
well as adding in some optimizations.

One of the key things to note here is that the TLB flush itself is
deferred until the unmap, and the call in to update_mmu_cache() itself
goes away, relying on the regular page fault path to handle the lazy
dcache writeback if necessary.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This paves the way for allowing individual CPUs to overload the
individual flushing routines that they care about without having to
depend on weak aliases. SH-4 is converted over initially, as it wires
up pretty much everything. The majority of the other CPUs will simply use
the default no-op implementation with their own region flushers wired up.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This provides a central point for CPU cache initialization routines.
This replaces the antiquated p3_cache_init() method, which the vast
majority of CPUs never cared about.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Now that sh64 also can use the uncached section, wire up the fixmap for
it as well.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

set_pte_phys() presently uses the global flush_tlb_one(), which locks on
SMP trying to do the IPI. As we have not even initialized the other CPUs
at this point, switch to the local_ variant so the flush happens on the
boot CPU.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

This kills off after_bootmem and switches to using slab_is_available()
instead. Presently the only place this is used is by the sh64 ioremap,
and there's not much point in keeping the reference around otherwise.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
that were previously not described there.

In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
this change.
Immediate:
  - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
    on which a defective DIMM is located.  This will reduce system
    downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
  - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
    previously offlined due to a defective DIMM.  This could happen
    during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
    onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
    to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
    node.  The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
    could be ugly.
  - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
    of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
Future:
  - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
    sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
    of a specific node.

Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems.  Symlink creation during physical
memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.
Signed-off-by: NGary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>