linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] x86_64: add memory hotremove config option

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Message-ID: <20080905174449.GC27395@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:44:49 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Chris McDermott <lcm@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] x86_64: add memory hotremove config option


* Gary Hade <garyhade@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Add memory hotremove config option to x86_64
> 
> Memory hotremove functionality can currently be configured into the 
> ia64, powerpc, and s390 kernels.  This patch makes it possible to 
> configure the memory hotremove functionality into the x86_64 kernel as 
> well.

hm, why is it for 64-bit only?

> +++ linux-2.6.27-rc5/arch/x86/Kconfig	2008-09-03 13:34:55.000000000 -0700
> @@ -1384,6 +1384,9 @@
>  	def_bool y
>  	depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
> 
> +config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> +	def_bool y

so this will break the build on 32-bit, if CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=y? 
mm/memory_hotplug.c assumes that remove_memory() is provided by the 
architecture.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> +int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
> +{
> +	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
> +	unsigned long timeout = 120 * HZ;
> +	int ret;
> +	start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	end_pfn = start_pfn + (size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +	ret = offline_pages(start_pfn, end_pfn, timeout);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
> +	/* Arch-specific calls go here */
> +out:
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(remove_memory);
> +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */

hm, nothing appears to be arch-specific about this trivial wrapper 
around offline_pages().

Shouldnt this be moved to the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE portion of 
mm/memory_hotplug.c instead, as a weak function? That way architectures 
only have to enable ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE - and architectures 
with different/special needs can override it.

	Ingo
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