From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com,
linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cmetcalf@tilera.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Yasuaki ISIMATU <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
paulus@samba.org, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, rientjes@google.com,
cl@linux.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, liuj97@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 12/19] memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory()
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:35:37 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50166379.4090305@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120730102305.GB3631@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
At 07/30/2012 06:23 PM, Heiko Carstens Wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 06:32:15PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> We don't call __add_pages() directly in the function add_memory()
>> because some other architecture related things need to be done
>> before or after calling __add_pages(). So we should introduce
>> a new function arch_remove_memory() to revert the things
>> done in arch_add_memory().
>>
>> Note: the function for s390 is not implemented(I don't know how to
>> implement it for s390).
>
> There is no hardware or firmware interface which could trigger a
> hot memory remove on s390. So there is nothing that needs to be
> implemented.
Thanks for providing this information.
According to this, arch_remove_memory() for s390 can just return -EBUSY.
Thanks
Wen Congyang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-30 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-27 10:20 [RFC PATCH v5 00/19] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:22 ` [RFC PATCH 0/19] firmware_map : unify argument of firmware_map_add_early/hotplug Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:24 ` [PATCH 0.5/19] remove memory info from list before freeing it Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:25 ` [RFC PATCH v5 01/19] memory-hotplug: rename remove_memory() to offline_memory()/offline_pages() Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:26 ` [RFC PATCH v5 02/19] memory-hotplug: implement offline_memory() Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:27 ` [RFC PATCH v5 03/19] memory-hotplug: store the node id in acpi_memory_device Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:27 ` [RFC PATCH v5 04/19] memory-hotplug: offline and remove memory when removing the memory device Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH v5 05/19] memory-hotplug: check whether memory is present or not Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 20:17 ` Tony Luck
2012-07-30 1:57 ` Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:28 ` [RFC PATCH v5 06/19] memory-hotplug: export the function acpi_bus_remove() Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:29 ` [RFC PATCH v5 07/19] memory-hotplug: call acpi_bus_remove() to remove memory device Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH v5 08/19] memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:30 ` [RFC PATCH v5 09/19] memory-hotplug: does not release memory region in PAGES_PER_SECTION chunks Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:31 ` [RFC PATCH v5 10/19] memory-hotplug: add memory_block_release Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:31 ` [RFC PATCH v5 11/19] memory-hotplug: remove_memory calls __remove_pages Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:32 ` [RFC PATCH v5 12/19] memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory() Wen Congyang
2012-07-30 10:23 ` Heiko Carstens
2012-07-30 10:35 ` Wen Congyang [this message]
2012-07-31 12:40 ` Gerald Schaefer
2012-08-01 1:42 ` Wen Congyang
2012-08-01 2:44 ` jencce zhou
2012-08-01 6:06 ` Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:32 ` [RFC PATCH v5 13/19] memory-hotplug: check page type in get_page_bootmem Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:33 ` [RFC PATCH v5 14/19] memory-hotplug: move register_page_bootmem_info_node and put_page_bootmem for sparse-vmemmap Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:34 ` [RFC PATCH v5 15/19] memory-hotplug: implement register_page_bootmem_info_section of sparse-vmemmap Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:34 ` [RFC PATCH v5 16/19] memory-hotplug: free memmap " Wen Congyang
2012-07-31 12:22 ` Gerald Schaefer
2012-08-01 6:09 ` Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH v5 17/19] memory_hotplug: clear zone when the memory is removed Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH v5 00/19] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-07-27 10:35 ` [RFC PATCH v5 18/19] memory-hotplug: add node_device_release Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:36 ` [RFC PATCH v5 19/19] memory-hotplug: remove sysfs file of node Wen Congyang
2012-07-27 10:45 ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-07-30 2:03 ` Wen Congyang
2012-07-30 3:47 ` Wen Congyang
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