Re: [Patch v5 2/7] acpi,memory-hotplug: deal with eject request inhotplug queue

[Toshi Kani]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 14:59 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> The memory device can be removed by 2 ways:
> 1. send eject request by SCI
> 2. echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject
> 
> We handle the 1st case in the module acpi_memhotplug, and handle
> the 2nd case in ACPI eject notification. This 2 events may happen
> at the same time, so we may touch acpi_memory_device.res_list at
> the same time. This patch reimplements memory-hotremove support
> through an ACPI eject notification. Now the memory device is
> offlined and hotremoved only in the function acpi_memory_device_remove()
> which is protected by device_lock().
> 
> CC: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jiang Liu <liuj97@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the update.  It looks good.

Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>

-Toshi



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