memory_hotplug: introduce memhp_default_state= command line parameter

CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE specifies the default value for the memory hotplug onlining policy. Add a command line parameter to make it possible to override the default. It may come handy for debug and testing purposes. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: David Vrabel <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Igor Mammedov <[email protected]> Cc: Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
alex · May 20, 2016 · 86dd995 · 86dd995
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2161,6 +2161,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
 			per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
 
+        memhp_default_state=online/offline
+			[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
+			onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
+			set according to the
+			CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
+			option.
+			See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
+
 	memmap=exactmap	[KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
 			E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
 			Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ bool memhp_auto_online = true;
 #endif
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(memhp_auto_online);
 
+static int __init setup_memhp_default_state(char *str)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(str, "online"))
+		memhp_auto_online = true;
+	else if (!strcmp(str, "offline"))
+		memhp_auto_online = false;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("memhp_default_state=", setup_memhp_default_state);
+
 void get_online_mems(void)
 {
 	might_sleep();