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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 06/12] memory-hotplug: unregister memory section on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
On 11/01/2012 05:44 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> Currently __remove_section for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP does nothing. But even if
> we use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, we can unregister the memory_section.
>
> So the patch add unregister_memory_section() into __remove_section().

Hi Yasuaki,

In order to review this patch, I should dig sparse memory codes in
advance. But I have some confuse of codes. Why need encode/decode mem
map instead of set mem_map to ms->section_mem_map directly?

Regards,
Jaegeuk

>
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
> CC: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> CC: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index ca07433..66a79a7 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -286,11 +286,14 @@ static int __meminit __add_section(int nid, struct zone *zone,
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms)
> {
> - /*
> - * XXX: Freeing memmap with vmemmap is not implement yet.
> - * This should be removed later.
> - */
> - return -EBUSY;
> + int ret = -EINVAL;
> +
> + if (!valid_section(ms))
> + return ret;
> +
> + ret = unregister_memory_section(ms);
> +
> + return ret;
> }
> #else
> static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms)



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