Hi Andrea, On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:22:35AM +0000, Andrea Reale wrote: > Resending the patch adding linux-acpi in CC, as suggested by Rafael. > Everyone else: apologies for the noise. > > Commit 242831eb15a0 ("Memory hotplug / ACPI: Simplify memory removal") > introduced an assumption whereas when control > reaches remove_memory the corresponding memory has been already > offlined. In that case, the acpi_memhotplug was making sure that > the assumption held. > This assumption, however, is not necessarily true if offlining > and removal are not done by the same "controller" (for example, > when first offlining via sysfs). > > Removing this assumption for the generic remove_memory code > and moving it in the specific acpi_memhotplug code. This is > a dependency for the software-aided arm64 offlining and removal > process. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Reale <ar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Maciej Bielski <m.bielski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c | 2 +- > include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 9 ++++++--- > mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 +++++++++---- > 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c > index 6b0d3ef..b0126a0 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c > +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c > @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void acpi_memory_remove_memory(struct acpi_memory_device *mem_device) > nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(info->start_addr); > > acpi_unbind_memory_blocks(info); > - remove_memory(nid, info->start_addr, info->length); > + BUG_ON(remove_memory(nid, info->start_addr, info->length)); > list_del(&info->list); > kfree(info); > } > diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h > index 58e110a..1a9c7b2 100644 > --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h > +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h > @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static inline bool movable_node_is_enabled(void) > extern bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages); > extern void try_offline_node(int nid); > extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages); > -extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); > +extern int remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); > > #else > static inline bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long pfn, > @@ -311,7 +311,10 @@ static inline int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages) > return -EINVAL; > } > > -static inline void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {} > +static inline int remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) > +{ > + return -EINVAL; > +} > #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */ > > extern int walk_memory_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn, > @@ -323,7 +326,7 @@ extern void move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn, > unsigned long nr_pages); > extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages); > extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem); > -extern void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); > +extern int remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); > extern int sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long start_pfn); > extern void sparse_remove_one_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms, > unsigned long map_offset); > diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c > index d4b5f29..d5f15af 100644 > --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c > +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c > @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_offline_node); > * and online/offline operations before this call, as required by > * try_offline_node(). > */ > -void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) > +int __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) > { > int ret; > > @@ -1908,18 +1908,23 @@ void __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) > ret = walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1), NULL, > check_memblock_offlined_cb); > if (ret) > - BUG(); > + goto end_remove; > + > + ret = arch_remove_memory(start, size); > + > + if (ret) > + goto end_remove; The original code triggers BUG() when any memblock is not offlined. Why the new logic includes the result of arch_remove_memory()? But I agreed the we don't need BUG(). Returning a error is better. > > /* remove memmap entry */ > firmware_map_remove(start, start + size, "System RAM"); > memblock_free(start, size); > memblock_remove(start, size); > > - arch_remove_memory(start, size); > - > try_offline_node(nid); > > +end_remove: > mem_hotplug_done(); > + return ret; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(remove_memory); > #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */ > -- > 2.7.4 > > -- > 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 -- 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