Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI: container hot remove support.

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Hi Yinghai,

How do you think the 1st patch ? Is the idea OK with you ?

And about the memory hotplug thing, so far as I know, we are trying to
limit kernel memory in some nodes, and only support to hot-remove the
nodes with out kernel memory. This functionality is called
online_movable. And some of the patches are already in next-tree, most
of the patches are under review. :)

Thanks. :)

On 11/01/2012 12:48 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
<isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
patch 2. Introduce a new function container_device_remove() to handle
           ACPI_NOTIFY_EJECT_REQUEST event for container.

If container device contains memory device, the function is
very danger. As you know, we are developing a memory hotplug.
If memory has kernel memory, memory hot remove operations fails.
But container_device_remove() cannot realize it. So even if
the memory hot remove operation fails, container_device_remove()
keeps hot remove operation. Finally, the function sends _EJ0
to firmware. In this case, if the memory is accessed, kernel
panic occurs.
The example is as follows:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/26/318

so what is the overall status memory hot-remove?
how are following memory get processed ?
1. memory for kernel text, module
2. page table
3. vmemmap
4. memory for kmalloc, for dma


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