memory_hotplug: introduce CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE

This patchset continues the work I started with commit 31bc3858ea3e
("memory-hotplug: add automatic onlining policy for the newly added
memory").

Initially I was going to stop there and bring the policy setting logic
to userspace.  I met two issues on this way:

 1) It is possible to have memory hotplugged at boot (e.g.  with QEMU).
    These blocks stay offlined if we turn the onlining policy on by
    userspace.

 2) My attempt to bring this policy setting to systemd failed, systemd
    maintainers suggest to change the default in kernel or ...  to use
    tmpfiles.d to alter the policy (which looks like a hack to me):
        https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/2938

Here I suggest to add a config option to set the default value for the
policy and a kernel command line parameter to make the override.

This patch (of 2):

Introduce config option to set the default value for memory hotplug
onlining policy (/sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks).  The
reason one would want to turn this option on are to have early onlining
for hotpluggable memory available at boot and to not require any
userspace actions to make memory hotplug work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig text]
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 443f4b44ad97..0d7cb955aa01 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -261,10 +261,11 @@ it according to the policy which can be read from "auto_online_blocks" file:
 
 % cat /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
 
-The default is "offline" which means the newly added memory is not in a
-ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added memory blocks
-manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online" to
-"auto_online_blocks" file:
+The default depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
+option. If it is disabled the default is "offline" which means the newly added
+memory is not in a ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added
+memory blocks manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online"
+to "auto_online_blocks" file:
 
 % echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks