Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] mm/memory_hotplug: Make unregister_memory_block_under_nodes() never fail

Oscar Salvador
2019-07-01T09:36:44Z

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 10:51:44AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Yeah, we do not allow to offline multi zone (node) ranges so the current
> code seems to be over engineered.
>
> Anyway, I am wondering why do we have to strictly check for already
> removed nodes links. Is the sysfs code going to complain we we try to
> remove again?

No, sysfs will silently "fail" if the symlink has already been removed.
At least that is what I saw last time I played with it.

I guess the question is what if sysfs handling changes in the future
and starts dropping warnings when trying to remove a symlink is not there.
Maybe that is unlikely to happen?

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Oscar Salvador
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