On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Wen Congyang wrote:

> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
> 
> The memory device can be removed by 2 ways:
> 1. send eject request by SCI
> 2. echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject
> 
> In the 1st case, acpi_memory_disable_device() will be called.
> In the 2nd case, acpi_memory_device_remove() will be called.
> acpi_memory_device_remove() will also be called when we unbind the
> memory device from the driver acpi_memhotplug or a driver initialization
> fails.
> 
> acpi_memory_disable_device() has already implemented a code which
> offlines memory and releases acpi_memory_info struct. But
> acpi_memory_device_remove() has not implemented it yet.
> 
> So the patch move offlining memory and releasing acpi_memory_info struct
> codes to a new function acpi_memory_remove_memory(). And it is used by both
> acpi_memory_device_remove() and acpi_memory_disable_device().
> 
> CC: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
> CC: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
> CC: Len Brown <[email protected]>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
> CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
> CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <[email protected]>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
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