memory-hotplug: add sysfs valid_zones attribute

Currently memory-hotplug has two limits:

1. If the memory block is in ZONE_NORMAL, you can change it to
   ZONE_MOVABLE, but this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE.

2. If the memory block is in ZONE_MOVABLE, you can change it to
   ZONE_NORMAL, but this memory block must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL.

With this patch, we can easy to know a memory block can be onlined to
which zone, and don't need to know the above two limits.

Updated the related Documentation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional comment layout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=n]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused local zone_prev]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index d9524c49d767..8f1a41951df9 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ extern int zone_grow_waitqueues(struct zone *zone, unsigned long nr_pages);
 extern int add_one_highpage(struct page *page, int pfn, int bad_ppro);
 /* VM interface that may be used by firmware interface */
 extern int online_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long, int);
+extern int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long, unsigned long);
 extern void __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long);
 
 typedef void (*online_page_callback_t)(struct page *page);