From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, vasilis.liaskovitis@profitbricks.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
        tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: Cannot hot remove a memory device
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 01:14:04 +0200
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On Thursday, August 08, 2013 04:50:42 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 00:12 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 08, 2013 11:15:20 AM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 18:04 -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 01:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > On Friday, August 02, 2013 03:46:15 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 23:43 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >  :
> > > > > > I think it fails with -EINVAL at the place with dev_warn(dev, "ACPI
> > > > > > handle is already set\n").  When two ACPI memory objects associate with
> > > > > > a same memory block, the bind procedure of the 2nd ACPI memory object
> > > > > > sees that ACPI_HANDLE(dev) is already set to the 1st ACPI memory object.
> > > > > 
> > > > > That sound's plausible, but I wonder how we can fix that?
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's no way for a single physical device to have two different ACPI
> > > > > "companions".  It looks like the memory blocks should be 64 M each in that
> > > > > case.  Or we need to create two child devices for each memory block and
> > > > > associate each of them with an ACPI object.  That would lead to complications
> > > > > in the user space interface, though.
> > > > 
> > > > Right.  Even bigger issue is that I do not think __add_pages() and
> > > > __remove_pages() can add / delete a memory chunk that is less than
> > > > 128MB.  128MB is the granularity of them.  So, we may just have to fail
> > > > this case gracefully.
> > > 
> > > FYI: I have submitted the patch blow to close this part of the issue...
> > > 
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/8/396
> > 
> > That looks good to me, but we'd still need to make it possible to have
> > memory blocks smaller than 128 MB ...
> 
> Do you mean acpi_bind_one() needs to be able to handle such case?  If
> so, it should not be a problem since a memory block device won't be
> created when add_memory() fails with the change above.  So, there is no
> binding to be done.  If you mean add_memory() needs to be able to handle
> a smaller range, that's quite a tough one unless we make the section
> size smaller.
> 
> BTW, when add_memory() fails, the memory hot-add request still succeeds
> with no driver attached.  This seems logical, but the added device is
> useless when no handler is attached.  And it does not allow ejecting the
> device with no handler.  I am not too worry about this since this is a
> rare case, but it reminded me that the framework won't handle rollback.

That is a valid observation.

Perhaps we should add a flag that will cause acpi_bus_offline_companions()
to fail immediately if that flag is set for the given device?

Then, acpi_memory_enable_device() could set that flag for mem_device->device
when either add_memory() or acpi_bind_memory_blocks() fails?

Rafael

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