Re: [v5 2/3] mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface useable

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:57 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > -static inline void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size) {}
> > +static inline bool remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
> > +{
> > +     return -EBUSY;
> > +}
>
> This seems like an appropriate place for a WARN_ONCE(), if someone
> manages to call remove_memory() with hotplug disabled.
>
> BTW, I looked and can't think of a better errno, but -EBUSY probably
> isn't the best error code, right?
>
> > -void remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
> > +/**
> > + * remove_memory
> > + * @nid: the node ID
> > + * @start: physical address of the region to remove
> > + * @size: size of the region to remove
> > + *
> > + * NOTE: The caller must call lock_device_hotplug() to serialize hotplug
> > + * and online/offline operations before this call, as required by
> > + * try_offline_node().
> > + */
> > +void __remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size)
> >  {
> > +
> > +     /*
> > +      * trigger BUG() is some memory is not offlined prior to calling this
> > +      * function
> > +      */
> > +     if (try_remove_memory(nid, start, size))
> > +             BUG();
> > +}
>
> Could we call this remove_offline_memory()?  That way, it makes _some_
> sense why we would BUG() if the memory isn't offline.

Please WARN() instead of BUG() because failing to remove memory should
not be system fatal.