Re: [PATCH 3/3 RFC] ACPI / hotplug: Use device offline/online for graceful hot-removal

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, May 01, 2013 02:20:12 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 17:05 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 05:49:38 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2013-04-29 at 14:29 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Modify the generic ACPI hotplug code to be able to check if devices
> > > > scheduled for hot-removal may be gracefully removed from the system
> > > > using the device offline/online mechanism introduced previously.
> > > > 
> > > > Namely, make acpi_scan_hot_remove() which handles device hot-removal
> > > > call device_offline() for all physical companions of the ACPI device
> > > > nodes involved in the operation and check the results.  If any of
> > > > the device_offline() calls fails, the function will not progress to
> > > > the removal phase (which cannot be aborted), unless its (new) force
> > > > argument is set (in case of a failing offline it will put the devices
> > > > offlined by it back online).
> > > > 
> > > > In support of the 'forced' hot-removal, add a new sysfs attribute
> > > > 'force_remove' that will reside in every ACPI hotplug profile
> > > > present under /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi |    9 +-
> > > >  drivers/acpi/internal.h                       |    2 
> > > >  drivers/acpi/scan.c                           |   97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > > >  drivers/acpi/sysfs.c                          |   27 +++++++
> > > >  include/acpi/acpi_bus.h                       |    3 
> > > >  5 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > >  :
> > > > Index: linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > > > +++ linux-pm/drivers/acpi/scan.c
> > > > @@ -120,7 +120,61 @@ acpi_device_modalias_show(struct device
> > > >  }
> > > >  static DEVICE_ATTR(modalias, 0444, acpi_device_modalias_show, NULL);
> > > >  
> > > > -static int acpi_scan_hot_remove(struct acpi_device *device)
> > > > +static acpi_status acpi_bus_offline_companions(acpi_handle handle, u32 lvl,
> > > > +					       void *data, void **ret_p)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	struct acpi_device *device = NULL;
> > > > +	struct acpi_device_physical_node *pn;
> > > > +	bool force = *((bool *)data);
> > > > +	acpi_status status = AE_OK;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (acpi_bus_get_device(handle, &device))
> > > > +		return AE_OK;
> > > > +
> > > > +	mutex_lock(&device->physical_node_lock);
> > > > +
> > > > +	list_for_each_entry(pn, &device->physical_node_list, node) {
> > > 
> > > I do not think physical_node_list is set for ACPI processor devices, so
> > > this code is NOP at this point.  I think properly initializing
> > > physical_node_list for CPU and memblk is one of the key items in this
> > > approach.
> > 
> > It surely is. :-)
> > 
> > I've almost done that for CPUs, but that still requires some more work.
> > Hopefully, it'll be mostly done later this week.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> > Memory will take some more time I guess, though.
> 
> Yes, memory has an ordering issue when using glue.c.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/398

Well, that may not be such a big problem.  I'll have a look at that later.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.