On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > Hi Wen, > > 2012/06/27 17:49, Wen Congyang wrote: >> At 06/27/2012 01:44 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu Wrote: >>> When offline_pages() is called to offlined memory, the function fails since >>> all memory has been offlined. In this case, the function should succeed. >>> The patch adds the check function into offline_pages(). >> >> You miss such case: some pages are online, while some pages are offline. >> offline_pages() will fail too in such case. > > You are right. But current code fails, when the function is called to offline > memory. In this case, the function should succeed. So the patch confirms > whether the memory was offlined or not. And if memory has already been > offlined, offline_pages return 0.
Can you please explain why the caller can't check it? I hope to avoid an ignorance as far as we can. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
