Re: Cannot hot remove a memory device (patch)

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On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 15:14 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
  :
> Can you please test the appended patch?  I tested it somewhat, but since the
> greatest number of physical nodes per ACPI device object I can get on my test
> machines is 2 (and even that after hacking the kernel somewhat), that was kind
> of unconclusive.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
> 
> ---
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: ACPI: Drop physical_node_id_bitmap from struct acpi_device
> 
> The physical_node_id_bitmap in struct acpi_device is only used for
> looking up the first currently unused phyiscal dependent node ID
> by acpi_bind_one().  It is not really necessary, however, because
> acpi_bind_one() walks the entire physical_node_list of the given
> device object for sanity checking anyway and if that list is always
> sorted by node_id, it is straightforward to find the first gap
> between the currently used node IDs and use that number as the ID
> of the new list node.
> 
> This also removes the artificial limit of the maximum number of
> dependent physical devices per ACPI device object, which now depends
> only on the capacity of unsigend int.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

I like the change. Much better :-)

Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
-Toshi


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