At 10/05/2012 05:31 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro Wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> CC: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
>> CC: Len Brown <[email protected]>
>> CC: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
>> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> 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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