Re: [Patch v4 1/7] acpi,memory-hotplug: introduce a mutex lock toprotect the list in acpi_memory_device

[Wen Congyang]

At 11/15/2012 07:34 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki Wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 10:04:53 AM Wen Congyang wrote:
>> At 11/13/2012 05:00 AM, Toshi Kani Wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 19:04 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>>> The memory device can be removed by 2 ways:
>>>> 1. send eject request by SCI
>>>> 2. echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject
>>>>
>>>> This 2 events may happen at the same time, so we may touch
>>>> acpi_memory_device.res_list at the same time. This patch
>>>> introduce a lock to protect this list.
>>>
>>> Hi Wen,
>>>
>>> This race condition is not unique in memory hot-remove as the sysfs
>>> eject interface is created for all objects with _EJ0.  For CPU
>>> hot-remove, I addressed this race condition by making the notify handler
>>> to run the hot-remove operation on kacpi_hotplug_wq by calling
>>> acpi_os_hotplug_execute().  This serializes the hot-remove operations
>>> among the two events since the sysfs eject also runs on
>>> kacpi_hotplug_wq.  This way is much simpler and is easy to maintain,
>>> although it does not allow both operations to run simultaneously (which
>>> I do not think we need).  Can it be used for memory hot-remove as well?
>>
>> Good idea. I will update it.
> 
> Still waiting. :-)
> 
> But if you want that in v3.8, please repost ASAP.

I think I will send it today. It is in test now.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
> 
> 

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