Re: [PATCH 3/3] ppc64-specific memory notifier support

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

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On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:46 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> Hotplug memory notifier for ppc64. This gets invoked by writing
> the device-node that needs to be removed to /proc/ppc64/ofdt.
> We need to adjust the sections and remove sysfs entries by
> calling __remove_pages(). Then call arch specific code to
> get rid of htab mappings for the section of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Makefile         |    1 
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c |   98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 99 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.25-rc2/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc2/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c	2008-02-28 08:20:14.000000000 -0800

> +
> +static struct notifier_block pseries_smp_nb = {
> +	.notifier_call = pseries_memory_notifier,
> +};
> +
> +static int __init pseries_memory_hotplug_init(void)
> +{
> +	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR))
> +		pSeries_reconfig_notifier_register(&pseries_smp_nb);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +arch_initcall(pseries_memory_hotplug_init);

This is going to fire on non-pseries LPAR platforms, like iSeries and
PS3. Which is not what you want I think.

cheers

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