[PATCH 2/2] ehea: add memory remove hotplug support

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Tue Feb 5 01:46:02 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:04 +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> Add memory remove hotplug support
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann at de.ibm.com>
> 
> ---
>  Comment: This patch depends on the following patch that
>  exports the symbols
>   register_memory_notifier()
>   unregister_memory_notifier()
> 
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/1/293
> 
> 
>  drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
> index 21af674..b75afcc 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

> @@ -3559,6 +3578,10 @@ int __init ehea_module_init(void)
>  	if (ret)
>  		ehea_info("failed registering reboot notifier");
>  
> +	ret = register_memory_notifier(&ehea_mem_nb);
> +	if (ret)
> +		ehea_info("failed registering memory remove notifier");
> 
>  	ret = crash_shutdown_register(&ehea_crash_handler);
>  	if (ret)
>  		ehea_info("failed registering crash handler");

You don't do anything except print a message if the registration fails.
What happens when someone tries to remove memory but the memory notifier
wasn't registered properly? Bang?

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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