Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ACPI: container hot remove support.

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Sun Nov 04 2012 - 11:33:07 EST


On 11/01/2012 12:48 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> patch 2. Introduce a new function container_device_remove() to handle
>>> ACPI_NOTIFY_EJECT_REQUEST event for container.
>>
>> If container device contains memory device, the function is
>> very danger. As you know, we are developing a memory hotplug.
>> If memory has kernel memory, memory hot remove operations fails.
>> But container_device_remove() cannot realize it. So even if
>> the memory hot remove operation fails, container_device_remove()
>> keeps hot remove operation. Finally, the function sends _EJ0
>> to firmware. In this case, if the memory is accessed, kernel
>> panic occurs.
>> The example is as follows:
>>
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/26/318
>
> so what is the overall status memory hot-remove?
> how are following memory get processed ?
> 1. memory for kernel text, module
> 2. page table
> 3. vmemmap
> 4. memory for kmalloc, for dma
Hi Yinghai,
I have given a talk about the CPU/memory/PCI host bridge hotplug
current status and next step plan on China Linux Kernel Developer Conference,
please refer to
https://github.com/downloads/jiangliu/linux/ACPI%20Based%20System%20Device%20Dynamic%20Reconfiguration.pdf
Thanks!
Gerry

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