memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added memory
Currently, all newly added memory blocks remain in 'offline' state unless someone onlines them, some linux distributions carry special udev rules like: SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="online" to make this happen automatically. This is not a great solution for virtual machines where memory hotplug is being used to address high memory pressure situations as such onlining is slow and a userspace process doing this (udev) has a chance of being killed by the OOM killer as it will probably require to allocate some memory. Introduce default policy for the newly added memory blocks in /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks file with two possible values: "offline" which preserves the current behavior and "online" which causes all newly added memory blocks to go online as soon as they're added. The default is "offline". Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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