[PATCH 8/8] powerpc/pseries: child nodes are not detached by dlpar_detach_node

Nathan Fontenot nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Aug 19 23:56:14 EST 2013


On 08/15/2013 12:23 AM, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
> Calls to dlpar_detach_node do not iterate over child nodes detaching them as
> well. By iterating and detaching the child nodes we ensure that they have the
> OF_DETACHED flag set and that their reference counts are decremented such that
> the node will be freed from memory by of_node_release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
> index 4ea667d..7cfdaae 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
> @@ -286,8 +286,15 @@ int dlpar_attach_node(struct device_node *dn)
>  
>  int dlpar_detach_node(struct device_node *dn)
>  {
> +	struct device_node *child;
>  	int rc;
>  
> +	child = of_get_next_child(dn, NULL);
> +	while (child) {
> +		dlpar_detach_node(child);
> +		child = of_get_next_child(dn, child);
> +	}
> +
>  	rc = of_detach_node(dn);
>  	if (rc)
>  		return rc;
> 



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