* Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote: > CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE enables /sys/devices/system/memory/probe > interface, which allows a given memory address to be hot-added as > follows. (See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt for more detail.) > > # echo start_address_of_new_memory > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe > > This probe interface is required on powerpc. On x86, however, ACPI > notifies a memory hotplug event to the kernel, which performs its > hotplug operation as the result. Therefore, regular users do not need > this interface on x86. This probe interface is also error-prone and > misleading that the kernel blindly adds a given memory address without > checking if the memory is present on the system; no probing is done > despite of its name. The kernel crashes when a user requests to online > a memory block that is not present on the system. This interface is > currently used for testing as it can fake a hotplug event. > > This patch disables CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE by default on x86, adds > its Kconfig menu entry on x86, and clarifies its use in Documentation/ > memory-hotplug.txt. Could we please also fix it to never crash the kernel, even if stupid ranges are provided? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>