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author | Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2013-02-22 16:32:52 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-23 17:50:11 -0800 |
commit | 6677e3eaf4d78abd7b09133414c05dc3ec353e7f (patch) | |
tree | 62898a335513651e498d0ace2eb0f554d2ddc0bb /include | |
parent | 993c1aad8f316dbafae6a0ec660ec846676838d6 (diff) | |
download | linux-6677e3eaf4d78abd7b09133414c05dc3ec353e7f.tar.bz2 |
memory-hotplug: check whether all memory blocks are offlined or not when removing memory
We remove the memory like this:
1. lock memory hotplug
2. offline a memory block
3. unlock memory hotplug
4. repeat 1-3 to offline all memory blocks
5. lock memory hotplug
6. remove memory(TODO)
7. unlock memory hotplug
All memory blocks must be offlined before removing memory. But we don't
hold the lock in the whole operation. So we should check whether all
memory blocks are offlined before step6. Otherwise, kernel maybe
panicked.
Offlining a memory block and removing a memory device can be two
different operations. Users can just offline some memory blocks without
removing the memory device. For this purpose, the kernel has held
lock_memory_hotplug() in __offline_pages(). To reuse the code for
memory hot-remove, we repeat step 1-3 to offline all the memory blocks,
repeatedly lock and unlock memory hotplug, but not hold the memory
hotplug lock in the whole operation.
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h index 4a45c4e50025..8dd0950a6a7a 100644 --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ extern int add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); extern int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size); extern int offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages); extern int offline_memory_block(struct memory_block *mem); +extern bool is_memblock_offlined(struct memory_block *mem); extern int remove_memory(u64 start, u64 size); extern int sparse_add_one_section(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn, int nr_pages); |