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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	len.brown@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
	paulus@samba.org, minchan.kim@gmail.com,
	kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, rientjes@google.com,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	cl@linux.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, liuj97@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v8 PATCH 08/20] memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:16:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120904161634.f1f9f693.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5044454E.7070909@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:51:10 +0800
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> >> +static void release_firmware_map_entry(struct kobject *kobj)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct firmware_map_entry *entry = to_memmap_entry(kobj);
> >> +	struct page *page;
> >> +
> >> +	page = virt_to_page(entry);
> >> +	if (PageSlab(page) || PageCompound(page))
> > 
> > That PageCompound() test looks rather odd.  Why is this done?
> 
> Liu Jiang and Christoph Lameter discussed how to find slab page
> in this mail:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/333.

Well, please add a code comment to release_firmware_map_entry() which
fully explains these things.

I see that Christoph and I agree: "It would be cleaner if memory
hotplug had an indicator which allocation mechanism was used and would
use the corresponding free action".  You didn't respond to this
suggestion when he made it, nor when I made it.  What are your thoughts
on this?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-28 10:00 [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 01/20] memory-hotplug: rename remove_memory() to offline_memory()/offline_pages() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 02/20] memory-hotplug: implement offline_memory() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 03/20] memory-hotplug: store the node id in acpi_memory_device wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 04/20] memory-hotplug: offline and remove memory when removing the memory device wency
2012-08-31 20:55   ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-03  1:30     ` Wen Congyang
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 05/20] memory-hotplug: check whether memory is present or not wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 06/20] memory-hotplug: export the function acpi_bus_remove() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 07/20] memory-hotplug: call acpi_bus_remove() to remove memory device wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 08/20] memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs wency
2012-08-31 21:06   ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-03  5:51     ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04 23:16       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-09-05  1:41         ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-03  7:31     ` Wen Congyang
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 09/20] memory-hotplug: does not release memory region in PAGES_PER_SECTION chunks wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 10/20] memory-hotplug: add memory_block_release wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 11/20] memory-hotplug: remove_memory calls __remove_pages wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 12/20] memory-hotplug: introduce new function arch_remove_memory() wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 13/20] memory-hotplug: check page type in get_page_bootmem wency
2012-08-31 21:30   ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-04  3:46     ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-04  9:54       ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 14/20] memory-hotplug: move register_page_bootmem_info_node and put_page_bootmem for sparse-vmemmap wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 15/20] memory-hotplug: implement register_page_bootmem_info_section of sparse-vmemmap wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 16/20] memory-hotplug: free memmap " wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 17/20] memory_hotplug: clear zone when the memory is removed wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 18/20] memory-hotplug: add node_device_release wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 19/20] memory-hotplug: remove sysfs file of node wency
2012-08-28 10:00 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 20/20] memory-hotplug: clear hwpoisoned flag when onlining pages wency
2012-08-31 20:49 ` [RFC v8 PATCH 00/20] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory Andrew Morton
2012-09-10  1:46   ` Yasuaki Ishimatsu
2012-09-10  2:01     ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-10 13:52       ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-11  0:27         ` Jerry
2012-09-11  1:23           ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11  5:18             ` Jerry
2012-09-11  5:39               ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12  6:17               ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11  1:25           ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12  5:20         ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-12 17:18           ` Vasilis Liaskovitis
2012-09-18  9:39             ` Wen Congyang
2012-09-19 17:02               ` Vasilis Liaskovitis

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