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Mon, 6 Jun 2022 04:53:59 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: emacs 29.0.50 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Wei Xu , Huang Ying , Greg Thelen , Yang Shi , Davidlohr Bueso , Tim C Chen , Brice Goglin , Michal Hocko , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Hesham Almatary , Dave Hansen , Jonathan Cameron , Alistair Popple , Dan Williams , Feng Tang , Jagdish Gediya , Baolin Wang , David Rientjes Subject: [PATCH] mm/demotion: Add sysfs ABI documentation In-Reply-To: <20220603134237.131362-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> References: <20220603134237.131362-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:23:56 +0530 Message-ID: <87r1428k9n.fsf@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: APa9aTVJURlGYUqnOxoSaN0iZv8cQcAQ X-Proofpoint-GUID: Kgl80yoV0xVh-NuSz9ALzJJ-2uXVBDmi X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.205,Aquarius:18.0.874,Hydra:6.0.517,FMLib:17.11.64.514 definitions=2022-06-06_01,2022-06-03_01,2022-02-23_01 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 phishscore=0 mlxscore=0 suspectscore=0 impostorscore=0 bulkscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 lowpriorityscore=0 spamscore=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 clxscore=1015 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2204290000 definitions=main-2206060023 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >From dd986c5aab4f6ccf41cc8d2dde5d9702a17adb6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 10:14:17 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] mm/demotion: Add sysfs ABI documentation Add sysfs ABI documentation. Suggested-by: Wei Xu Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V --- .../ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers | 81 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..41b0d1756ddb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-memory-tiers @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/ +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + This is the directory containing the information about memory tiers. + + Each memory tier has its own subdirectory. + + The order of memory tiers is determined by their rank values, not by + their memtier device names. A higher rank value means a higher tier. + +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/default_tier +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + The default memory tier to which memory would get added via hotplug + if the NUMA node is not part of any memory tier. + +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/max_tier +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + The max memory tier device ID we can create. Users can create memory + tiers in range [0 - max_tier) + +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/memtierN/ +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + This is the directory containing the information about a particular + memory tier, memtierN, where N is the memtier device ID (e.g. 0, 1). + + The memtier device ID number itself is just an identifier and has no + special meaning, i.e. memtier device ID numbers do not determine the + order of memory tiers. + +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/memtierN/rank +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + + When read, list the "rank" value associated with memtierN. + + "Rank" is an opaque value. Its absolute value doesn't have any + special meaning. But the rank values of different memtiers can be + compared with each other to determine the memory tier order. + + For example, if we have 3 memtiers: memtier0, memtier1, memiter2, and + their rank values are 100, 10, 50, then the memory tier order is: + memtier0 -> memtier2 -> memtier1, where memtier0 is the highest tier + and memtier1 is the lowest tier. + + The rank value of each memtier should be unique. + +What: /sys/devices/system/memtier/memtierN/nodelist +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + + When read, list the memory nodes in the specified tier. + +What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeN/memtier +Date: Jun 2022 +Contact: Linux memory management mailing list +Description: Interface for tiered memory + + When read, list the device ID of the memory tier that the node belongs + to. Its value is empty for a CPU-only NUMA node. + + When written, the kernel moves the node into the specified memory + tier if the move is allowed. The tier assignments of all other + nodes are not affected. + + When written with the special string "none" the specific node is removed + from participating in memory demotion. -- 2.36.1