Re: [PATCH 0/10] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory

KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-10-05T19:06:35Z

> Known problems:
> 1. memory can't be offlined when CONFIG_MEMCG is selected.
> For example: there is a memory device on node 1. The address range
> is [1G, 1.5G). You will find 4 new directories memory8, memory9, memory10,
> and memory11 under the directory /sys/devices/system/memory/.
> If CONFIG_MEMCG is selected, we will allocate memory to store page cgroup
> when we online pages. When we online memory8, the memory stored page cgroup
> is not provided by this memory device. But when we online memory9, the memory
> stored page cgroup may be provided by memory8. So we can't offline memory8
> now. We should offline the memory in the reversed order.
> When the memory device is hotremoved, we will auto offline memory provided
> by this memory device. But we don't know which memory is onlined first, so
> offlining memory may fail. In such case, you should offline the memory by
> hand before hotremoving the memory device.

Just iterate twice. 1st iterate: offline every non primary memory
block. 2nd iterate:
offline primary (i.e. first added) memory block. It may work.