Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 6 authors, 2012-08-01

Re: [RFC PATCH v5 12/19] memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory()

From: Gerald Schaefer <hidden>
Date: 2012-07-31 12:40:14
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-s390, linux-sh, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:35:37 +0800
Wen Congyang [off-list ref] wrote:
At 07/30/2012 06:23 PM, Heiko Carstens Wrote:
quoted
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 06:32:15PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
quoted
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.
Yes, but there is a prototype mismatch for arch_remove_memory() on s390
and also other architectures (u64 vs. unsigned long).

arch/s390/mm/init.c:262: error: conflicting types for
‘arch_remove_memory’ include/linux/memory_hotplug.h:88: error: previous
declaration of ‘arch_remove_memory’ was here

In memory_hotplug.h you have:
extern int arch_remove_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);

On all archs other than x86 you have:
int arch_remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)

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