On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Wen Congyang <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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