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SubjectRe: Cannot hot remove a memory device
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On Saturday, August 03, 2013 06:37:26 PM Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 03:01 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, August 02, 2013 06:04:40 PM 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:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for your report.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thursday, August 01, 2013 05:37:21 PM Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> > > > > > > By following commit, I cannot hot remove a memory device.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ACPI / memhotplug: Bind removable memory blocks to ACPI device nodes
> > > > > > > commit e2ff39400d81233374e780b133496a2296643d7d
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Details are follows:
> > > > > > > When I add a memory device, acpi_memory_enable_device() always fails
> > > > > > > as follows:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > [ 1271.114116] [ffffea121c400000-ffffea121c7fffff] PMD -> [ffff880813c00000-ffff880813ffffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.128682] [ffffea121c800000-ffffea121cbfffff] PMD -> [ffff880813800000-ffff880813bfffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.143298] [ffffea121cc00000-ffffea121cffffff] PMD -> [ffff880813000000-ffff8808133fffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.157799] [ffffea121d000000-ffffea121d3fffff] PMD -> [ffff880812c00000-ffff880812ffffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.172341] [ffffea121d400000-ffffea121d7fffff] PMD -> [ffff880812800000-ffff880812bfffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.186872] [ffffea121d800000-ffffea121dbfffff] PMD -> [ffff880812400000-ffff8808127fffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.201481] [ffffea121dc00000-ffffea121dffffff] PMD -> [ffff880812000000-ffff8808123fffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.216041] [ffffea121e000000-ffffea121e3fffff] PMD -> [ffff880811c00000-ffff880811ffffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.230623] [ffffea121e400000-ffffea121e7fffff] PMD -> [ffff880811800000-ffff880811bfffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.245148] [ffffea121e800000-ffffea121ebfffff] PMD -> [ffff880811400000-ffff8808117fffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.259683] [ffffea121ec00000-ffffea121effffff] PMD -> [ffff880811000000-ffff8808113fffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.274194] [ffffea121f000000-ffffea121f3fffff] PMD -> [ffff880810c00000-ffff880810ffffff] on node 3
> > > > > > > [ 1271.288764] [ffffea121f400000-ffffea121f7fffff] PMD -> [ffff880810800000-ffff880810bfffff] on node 3
> > > > >
> > > > > It appears that each memory object only has 64MB of memory. This is
> > > > > less than the memory block size, which is 128MB. This means that a
> > > > > single memory block associates with two ACPI memory device objects.
> > > >
> > > > That'd be bad.
> > > >
> > > > How did that work before if that indeed is the case?
> > >
> > > Well, it looks to me that it has never worked before...
> > >
> > > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > [ 1271.325841] acpi PNP0C80:03: acpi_memory_enable_device() error
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Well, the only new way acpi_memory_enable_device() can fail after that commit
> > > > > > is a failure in acpi_bind_memory_blocks().
> > > > >
> > > > > Agreed.
> > > > >
> > > > > > This means that either handle is NULL, which I think we can exclude, because
> > > > > > acpi_memory_enable_device() wouldn't be called at all if that were the case, or
> > > > > > there's a more subtle error in acpi_bind_one().
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One that comes to mind is that we may be calling acpi_bind_one() twice for the
> > > > > > same memory region, in which it will trigger -EINVAL from the sanity check in
> > > > > > there.
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > BTW, why do you think they are 64 M each (it's late and I'm obviously tired)?
>
> Oops! Sorry, I had confused the above messages with the one in
> init_memory_mapping(), which shows a memory range being added, i.e. the
> size of an ACPI memory device object. But the above messages actually
> came from vmemmap_populate_hugepages(), which was called during boot-up.
> So, these messages have nothing to do with ACPI memory device objects.
> And even worse, I do not seem to be able to count a number of zeros...
> In the above messages, each memory range is 4MB (0x400000), not 64MB
> (0x4000000)... My bad. :-(

Well, no problem. :-)

> So, while we may still need to do something for the less-than-128MB
> issue, Yasuaki may be hitting a different one. Let's wait for Yasuaki
> to give us more info.

My somewhat educated guess is that ACPI_MAX_PHYSICAL_NODE is too low for that
particular system, but that only is a guess.

Thanks,
Rafael



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