Let's rephrase to memory block terminology and add some further clarifications.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> --- drivers/base/memory.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c index cb80f2bdd7de..790b3bcd63a6 100644 --- a/drivers/base/memory.c +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c @@ -116,10 +116,8 @@ static unsigned long get_memory_block_size(void) } /* - * use this as the physical section index that this memsection - * uses. + * Show the first physical section index (number) of this memory block. */ - static ssize_t phys_index_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) { @@ -131,7 +129,10 @@ static ssize_t phys_index_show(struct device *dev, } /* - * Show whether the section of memory is likely to be hot-removable + * Show whether the memory block is likely to be offlineable (or is already + * offline). Once offline, the memory block could be removed. The return + * value does, however, not indicate that there is a way to remove the + * memory block. */ static ssize_t removable_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) @@ -455,7 +456,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(phys_device); static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(removable); /* - * Block size attribute stuff + * Show the memory block size (shared by all memory blocks). */ static ssize_t block_size_bytes_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) -- 2.21.0
