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Message-ID: <5091D30B.7040600@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:40:27 +0800
From: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
yinghai@...nel.org
CC: bhelgaas@...gle.com, lenb@...nel.org, jiang.liu@...wei.com,
izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI: container hot remove support.
On 10/31/2012 07:09 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> Hi Tang,
>
> If container device contains memory device, the function is
> very danger. As you know, we are developing a memory hotplug.
> If memory has kernel memory, memory hot remove operations fails.
> But container_device_remove() cannot realize it. So even if
> the memory hot remove operation fails, container_device_remove()
> keeps hot remove operation. Finally, the function sends _EJ0
> to firmware. In this case, if the memory is accessed, kernel
> panic occurs.
> The example is as follows:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/26/318
>
Hi Ishimatsu,
I see, thanks for the info. So we need to do some roll back thing.
Is anyone doing this now ?
If yes, would you please give me some links to refer to ? And I think I
should push these patches later.
If not, I think I can try to do it.
Thanks. :)
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