On Fri 13-04-18 15:33:28, David Hildenbrand wrote: > Some devices (esp. paravirtualized) might want to control > - when to online/offline a memory block > - how to online memory (MOVABLE/NORMAL) > - in which granularity to online/offline memory > > So let's add a new flag "driver_managed" and disallow to change the > state by user space. Device onlining/offlining will still work, however > the memory will not be actually onlined/offlined. That has to be handled > by the device driver that owns the memory. Is there any reason to create the memblock sysfs interface to this memory at all? ZONE_DEVICE mem hotplug users currently do not do that and manage the memory themselves. It seems you want to achieve the same thing, no? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
