On Mon 04-12-17 11:51:29, Andrea Reale wrote:

On Thu 30 Nov 2017, 15:49, Michal Hocko wrote:

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On Thu 23-11-17 11:14:52, Andrea Reale wrote:

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Adding a "remove" sysfs handle that can be used to trigger
memory hotremove manually, exactly simmetrically with
what happens with the "probe" device for hot-add.

This is usueful for architecture that do not rely on
ACPI for memory hot-remove.

As already said elsewhere, this really has to check the online status of
the range and fail some is still online.

This is actually still done in remove_memory() (patch 2/5) with
walk_memory_range. We just return an error rather than BUGing().

Or are you referring to something else?

But you are not returning that error to the caller, are you?

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+	nid = memory_add_physaddr_to_nid(phys_addr);
+	ret = lock_device_hotplug_sysfs();
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	remove_memory(nid, phys_addr,
+			 MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE * sections_per_block);
+	unlock_device_hotplug();
+	return count;

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs