Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 19/19] memory-hotplug: remove sysfs file of node

From: Wen Congyang <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:03:27 +0800

At 07/27/2012 06:45 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu Wrote:
> Hi Wen,
> 
> 2012/07/27 19:36, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>
>>
>> The patch adds node_set_offline() and unregister_one_node() to
>> remove_memory()
>> for removing sysfs file of node.
>>
>> CC: David Rientjes <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Jiang Liu <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Len Brown <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Christoph Lameter <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
>> CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email-masked]>
>> CC: Wen Congyang <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   mm/memory_hotplug.c |    5 +++++
>>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> index 5ac035f..5681968 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
>> @@ -1267,6 +1267,11 @@ int __ref remove_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64
>> size)
>>       /* remove memmap entry */
>>       firmware_map_remove(start, start + size, "System RAM");
>>
>> +    if (!node_present_pages(nid)) {
> 
> Applying [PATCH v5 17/19], pgdat->node_spanned_pages can become 0 when
> all memory of the pgdat is removed. When pgdat->node_spanned_pages is 0,
> it means the pgdat has no memory. So I think node_spanned_pages() is
> better.

node_spanned_pages = present_pages + hole_pages

So present_pages is always less or equal than spanned_pages, and I think
checking present pages is better.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Thanks,
> Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> 
>> +        node_set_offline(nid);
>> +        unregister_one_node(nid);
>> +    }
>> +
>>       arch_remove_memory(start, size);
>>   out:
>>       unlock_memory_hotplug();
>>
> 
> 
>