linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:12:55 -0600
From:   Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
To:     Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bharata B Rao <bharata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Stewart Smith <stewart@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@....ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] of/fdt: mark hotpluggable memory

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> When movable nodes are enabled, any node containing only hotpluggable
> memory is made movable at boot time.
>
> On x86, hotpluggable memory is discovered by parsing the ACPI SRAT,
> making corresponding calls to memblock_mark_hotplug().
>
> If we introduce a dt property to describe memory as hotpluggable,
> configs supporting early fdt may then also do this marking and use
> movable nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/of/fdt.c | 6 ++++++
>  mm/Kconfig       | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/fdt.c b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> index c89d5d2..2cf1d66 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/fdt.c
> @@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_memory(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
>         const char *type = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "device_type", NULL);
>         const __be32 *reg, *endp;
>         int l;
> +       bool hotpluggable;
>
>         /* We are scanning "memory" nodes only */
>         if (type == NULL) {
> @@ -1034,6 +1035,7 @@ int __init early_init_dt_scan_memory(unsigned long node, const char *uname,
>                 return 0;
>
>         endp = reg + (l / sizeof(__be32));
> +       hotpluggable = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, "linux,hotpluggable", NULL);

Memory being hotpluggable doesn't seem like a linux property to me.
I'd drop the linux prefix. Also, this needs to be documented.

Rob