[RFC] PPC64 Exporting memory information through /proc/iomem

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 01:25 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:35:35 -0700
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:19 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_VALID_MEMORY_RANGE. Then define own
> > find_next_system_ram() (rename to is_valid_memory_range()) - which
> > checks the given range is a valid memory range for memory-remove
> > or not. What do you think ?
> > 
> My concern is...
> Now, memory hot *add* makes use of resource(/proc/iomem) information for onlining
> memory.(See add_memory()->register_memory_resource() in mm/memoryhotplug.c)
> So, we'll have to consider changing it if we need.
> 
> Does PPC64 memory hot add registers new memory information to arch dependent
> information list ? It seems ppc64 registers hot-added memory information from
> *probe* file and registers it by add_memory()->register_memory_resource().

Yes. Thats what I realized after looking at the code. 
I have been concentrating on memory remove, never care about "add" :(
Let me take a closer look at "add" support for ppc.

Thanks,
Badari