[v7,2/4] powerpc/pseries: Revert 'Auto-online hotplugged memory'

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 18:45:30 UTC, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Revert the patch patch to auto-online hotplugged memory, commit
> id ec999072442a. Using the auto-online acpability does online added
> memory but does not update the associated device struct to
> indicate that the memory is online. The result of this is that
> memoryXX/online file in sysfs still reports the memory as being offline.
> 
> Additionally, not updating the device struct to indicate the memory
> is online will cause the pseries memory DLPAR code to fail when trying
> to remove a LMB that was previously removed and added back. This happens
> when validating that the LMB is removable.
> 
> Looking further into the auto-online memory, it seems that this
> capability is meant more for something like a balloon driver rather than
> general memory hotplug.
> 
> This patch reverts to the previous behavior of calling device_online()
> to online the LMB when it is DLPAR added and moves the lmb_to_memblock()
> routine out of CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE now that we call it for add.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/943db62c316c578f8e2cc6fb81a5f6

cheers