On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > When calling unregister_node(), the function shows following message at > device_release(). > > "Device 'node2' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must > be fixed." > > The reason is node's device struct does not have a release() function. > > So the patch registers node_device_release() to the device's release() > function for suppressing the warning message. Additionally, the patch adds > memset() to initialize a node struct into register_node(). Because the node > struct is part of node_devices[] array and it cannot be freed by > node_device_release(). So if system reuses the node struct, it has a garbage. > Nice catch on reuse of the statically allocated node_devices[] for node hotplug. > CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Can register_node() be made static in drivers/base/node.c and its declaration removed from linux/node.h? Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>