On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 10:29 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> (2014/04/02 17:56), Li Zhong wrote:
> > I noticed the phys_index and end_phys_index under
> > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/ have the same value, e.g.
> > (for the test machine, one memory block has 8 sections, that is
> >   sections_per_block equals 8)
> >
> > # cd /sys/devices/system/memory/memory100/
> > # cat phys_index end_phys_index
> > 00000064
> > 00000064
> >
> > Seems they should reflect the start/end section number respectively, which
> > also matches what is said in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
> >
> > This patch tries to modify that so the two files could show the start/end
> > section number of the memory block.
> >
> > After this change, output of the above example looks like:
> >
> > # cat phys_index end_phys_index
> > 00000320
> > 00000327
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zh...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> 
> Good catch! This is a bug. So I think the bug should be fixed.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com>

Thank you all for the review. 

If Dave and others don't have further objections, it seems this small
userspace incompatibility could be accepted by most of us, and I don't
need to make a version 2. 

Thanks, Zhong 

> Thanks,
> Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> 
> >   drivers/base/memory.c | 4 ++--
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
> > index bece691..b10f2fa 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
> > @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static ssize_t show_mem_start_phys_index(struct device 
> > *dev,
> >     struct memory_block *mem = to_memory_block(dev);
> >     unsigned long phys_index;
> >
> > -   phys_index = mem->start_section_nr / sections_per_block;
> > +   phys_index = mem->start_section_nr;
> >     return sprintf(buf, "%08lx\n", phys_index);
> >   }
> >
> > @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static ssize_t show_mem_end_phys_index(struct device 
> > *dev,
> >     struct memory_block *mem = to_memory_block(dev);
> >     unsigned long phys_index;
> >
> > -   phys_index = mem->end_section_nr / sections_per_block;
> > +   phys_index = mem->end_section_nr;
> >     return sprintf(buf, "%08lx\n", phys_index);
> >   }
> >
> >
> >
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