[PATCH] acpi memory hotplug, add parameter to disable memory hotplug [v3]

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 01/14/2014 07:42 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> index b9e9bd8..ea93f75 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>>  			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
>>  			no further checks are performed.
>>  
>> +	acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug.  Useful for kexec
>> +			   and kdump kernels.
>> +
>>  	add_efi_memmap	[EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
>>  			kernel's map of available physical RAM.
>>  
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
>> index 551dad7..4a0fa94 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_memhotplug.c
>> @@ -361,7 +361,19 @@ static void acpi_memory_device_remove(struct acpi_device *device)
>>  	acpi_memory_device_free(mem_device);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static bool acpi_no_memhotplug;
>> +
> 
> I think this should be annotated with __initdata.

Yep, I'll shoot out a v4 with that change.

P.

> 
>>  void __init acpi_memory_hotplug_init(void)
>>  {
>> +	if (acpi_no_memhotplug)
>> +		return;
>> +
>>  	acpi_scan_add_handler_with_hotplug(&memory_device_handler, "memory");
>>  }
>> +
>> +static int __init disable_acpi_memory_hotplug(char *str)
>> +{
>> +	acpi_no_memhotplug = true;
>> +	return 1;
>> +}
>> +__setup("acpi_no_memhotplug", disable_acpi_memory_hotplug);