On 08/02/2017 01:49 AM, joeyli wrote: > Hi YASUAKI, > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 03:21:38PM -0400, YASUAKI ISHIMATSU wrote: >> Hi Joey, >> >> On 07/23/2017 05:18 AM, joeyli wrote: > [...snip] >>>>> >>>> >>>> At least Yasuaki raised similar behavior for container in 2013. >>>> It's similar to the DVD player case, user space application needs >>>> to do something then trigger children offline and ejection of >>>> container. >>>> >>>> Base on Yasuaki's explanation, the reason of that he requested the >>>> userland ejection approach is that he got memory hot-remove problem >>>> in 2013. Maybe his problem is already fixed by your patches in current >>>> mainline. >>>> >>>> Hi Yasuaki, could you please check that your memory hot-remove problem >>>> is fixed on mainline kernel? >> >> I cannot remember what I mentioned in 2013. Could you tell me url of lkml archive. >> > > Here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/28/520 Thank you for specifying the URL. In the URL, I wrote the following problems: > 1. easily fail > My container device has CPU device and Memory device, and maximum size of > memory is 3Tbyte. In my environment, hot removing container device fails > on offlining memory if memory is used by application. > I think if offlininig memory, we must retly to offline memory several > times. I think the issue still remains. If process keeps accessing memory, offlining the memory easily fails with EBUSY. Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu > > In the mail, you mentioned two problems. But there have no detail about > those issues, and no root causes. We don't know why kernel should relies > on user space to complete the hot removing process for container. > > Thank a lot! > Joey Lee > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
