powerpc/pserie: Use lmb_is_removable() to check removability

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Dec 3 22:28:21 AEDT 2016


On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 16:50:45 UTC, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> We should be using lmb_is_removable() to validate that enough LMBs
> are available to remove when doing a remove by count. This will check
> that the LMB is owned by the system and it is considered removable.
> This patch also adds a pr_info() notification to report the LMB count
> to remove was not satisfied.
> 
> What we do now is just check that there are enough LMBs owned by the
> system when validating there are enough LMBs to remove. This can
> lead to situations where there are enough LMBs owned by the system
> but not enough that are considered removable. This results in having
> to bail out of the remove operation instead of just failing the request
> that we should have known wouldn't succeed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2db029ef58ab7c47cecab5fe73fa6e

cheers


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