[PATCH v5 02/14] memory-hotplug: check whether all memory blocks are offlined or not when removing memory
Tang Chen
tangchen at cn.fujitsu.com
Thu Dec 27 14:10:56 EST 2012
On 12/26/2012 11:10 AM, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
> (2012/12/24 21:09), Tang Chen wrote:
>> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu<isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> We remove the memory like this:
>> 1. lock memory hotplug
>> 2. offline a memory block
>> 3. unlock memory hotplug
>> 4. repeat 1-3 to offline all memory blocks
>> 5. lock memory hotplug
>> 6. remove memory(TODO)
>> 7. unlock memory hotplug
>>
>> All memory blocks must be offlined before removing memory. But we don't hold
>> the lock in the whole operation. So we should check whether all memory blocks
>> are offlined before step6. Otherwise, kernel maybe panicked.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang<wency at cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu<isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> a nitpick below.
>
>> +
>> + for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn< end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
>
> I prefer adding mem = NULL at the start of this for().
Hi Kamezawa-san,
Added, thanks. :)
>
>> + section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
>> + if (!present_section_nr(section_nr))
>> + continue;
>> +
>> + section = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
>> + /* same memblock? */
>> + if (mem)
>> + if ((section_nr>= mem->start_section_nr)&&
>> + (section_nr<= mem->end_section_nr))
>> + continue;
>> +
>
> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>
>
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