On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 07:59:49PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Already two people (including me) tried to offline subsections, because
> the function looks like it can deal with it. But we really can only
> online/offline full sections that are properly aligned (e.g., we can only
> mark full sections online/offline via SECTION_IS_ONLINE).
>
> Add a simple safety net to document the restriction now. Current users
> (core and powernv/memtrace) respect these restrictions.
It's been a while since I looked at sub-section handling stuff so sorry to ask
this, but was it true that we can hot-{remove,add} sub-section granularity,
while
we can only online /offline on section granularity?
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
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Oscar Salvador
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