On 2012-8-3 15:49, we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: > From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com> > > When calling remove_memory_block(), the function shows following message at > device_release(). > > Device 'memory528' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must > be fixed. >
I found this warning too when doing memory-hotplug, why not send as a bug fix patch? The same as [RFC PATCH V6 18/19] memory-hotplug: add node_device_release > remove_memory_block() calls kfree(mem). I think it shouled be called from > device_release(). So the patch implements memory_block_release() > > CC: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> > CC: Jiang Liu <liu...@gmail.com> > CC: Len Brown <len.br...@intel.com> > CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > CC: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org> > CC: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> > Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com> > CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > CC: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com> > CC: Wen Congyang <we...@cn.fujitsu.com> > Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com> > --- > drivers/base/memory.c | 11 ++++++++++- > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c > index 038be73..1cd3ef3 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/memory.c > +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c > @@ -109,6 +109,15 @@ bool is_memblk_offline(unsigned long start, unsigned > long size) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_memblk_offline); > > +#define to_memory_block(device) container_of(device, struct memory_block, > dev) > + > +static void release_memory_block(struct device *dev) > +{ > + struct memory_block *mem = to_memory_block(dev); > + > + kfree(mem); > +} > + > /* > * register_memory - Setup a sysfs device for a memory block > */ > @@ -119,6 +128,7 @@ int register_memory(struct memory_block *memory) > > memory->dev.bus = &memory_subsys; > memory->dev.id = memory->start_section_nr / sections_per_block; > + memory->dev.release = release_memory_block; > > error = device_register(&memory->dev); > return error; > @@ -674,7 +684,6 @@ int remove_memory_block(unsigned long node_id, struct > mem_section *section, > mem_remove_simple_file(mem, phys_device); > mem_remove_simple_file(mem, removable); > unregister_memory(mem); > - kfree(mem); > } else > kobject_put(&mem->dev.kobj); > > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev