linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/12] memory-hogplug : check memory offline in offline

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Message-ID: <CAHGf_=rzRthh+hpKWAVF9OyL+P_NhFw4y+W-tF3j0zB8pr0QjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 01:27:35 -0400
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, cl@...ux.com,
	minchan.kim@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/12] memory-hogplug : check memory offline in offline_pages

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
<isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi Wen,
>
> 2012/06/27 17:49, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> At 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu Wrote:
>>> When offline_pages() is called to offlined memory, the function fails since
>>> all memory has been offlined. In this case, the function should succeed.
>>> The patch adds the check function into offline_pages().
>>
>> You miss such case: some pages are online, while some pages are offline.
>> offline_pages() will fail too in such case.
>
> You are right. But current code fails, when the function is called to offline
> memory. In this case, the function should succeed. So the patch confirms
> whether the memory was offlined or not. And if memory has already been
> offlined, offline_pages return 0.

Can you please explain why the caller can't check it? I hope to avoid
an ignorance
as far as we can.
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