linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] acpi,memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory() to offline

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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:45:59 +0800
From:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, rientjes@...gle.com, liuj97@...il.com,
	len.brown@...el.com, cl@...ux.com, minchan.kim@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] acpi,memory-hotplug : rename remove_memory() to offline_memory()

At 10/05/2012 05:31 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro Wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
>>
>> add_memory() hot adds a physical memory. But remove_memory does not
>> hot remove a phsical memory. It only offlines memory. The name
>> confuse us.
>>
>> So the patch renames remove_memory() to offline_memory(). We will
>> use rename_memory() for hot removing memory.
>>
>> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
>> CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@...il.com>
>> CC: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
>> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c |    2 +-
>>  include/linux/memory_hotplug.h |    2 +-
>>  mm/memory_hotplug.c            |    6 +++---
>>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Probably, the better way is to just remove remove_memory() and use
> offline_pages().

we don't notify the userspace that the memory is offlined in offline_pages().
We reimplement offline_memory(), but ishimatsu doesn't include that patch to
this series.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> btw, current remove_memory() pfn calculation is just buggy.
> 
> 
>> int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size)
>> {
>> 	unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
>>
>> 	start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(start);
>> 	end_pfn = start_pfn + PFN_DOWN(size);
> 
> It should be:
> 
> 	start_pfn = PFN_DOWN(start);
> 	end_pfn = PFN_UP(start + size)
> 
> or
> 
> 	start_pfn = PFN_UP(start);
> 	end_pfn = PFN_DOWN(start + size)
> 

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