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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9606aed331 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/ppc-memtrace @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: This folder contains the relevant debugfs files for the + hardware trace macro to use. CONFIG_PPC64_HARDWARE_TRACING + must be set. + +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/enable +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: Write an integer containing the size in bytes of the memory + you want removed from each NUMA node to this file - it must be + aligned to the memblock size. This amount of RAM will be removed + from each NUMA node in the kernel mappings and the following + debugfs files will be created. Once memory is successfully + removed from each node, the following files are created. To + re-add memory to the kernel, echo 0 into this file (it will be + automatically onlined). + +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id> +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: This directory contains information about the removed memory + from the specific NUMA node. + +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/size +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: This contains the size of the memory removed from the node. + +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/start +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: This contains the start address of the removed memory. + +What: /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/memtrace/<node-id>/trace +Date: Aug 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.14 +Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org +Description: This is where the hardware trace macro will output the trace + it generates. |