On 12/14/2012 05:27 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
> This patch adds help info for CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE option.
> 
> This option allows user to online all memory of a node as movable
> memory. So that the whole node can be hotpluged. Users who don't
> use hotplug feature are also fine with this option on since they
> won't online memory as movable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 71259e0..2ad51cb 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -150,6 +150,16 @@ config MOVABLE_NODE
>       depends on X86_64
>       depends on NUMA
>       depends on BROKEN
> +     help
> +       Allow a node to have only movable memory. Pages used by kernel, such
> +       as direct mapping pages can not be migrated. So the corresponding
> +       memory device can not be hotpluged. This option allows users to
> +       online all the memory of a node as movable memory so that the whole
> +       node can be hotpluged. Users who don't use hotplug feature are fine
> +       with this option on since they don't online memory as movable.
> +
> +       Say Y here if you want to hotplug a whole node.
> +       Say N here if you want kernel to use memory on all nodes evenly.

Thank you for adding the help text which should have been done by me.

Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
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