I wrote a patch to avoid redundant memory hot-add call at boot time. This
was cause of strange fail message of memory hotplug like "ACPI: add_memory
failed". Memory is recognized by early boot code with EFI/E820.
But, if DSDT describes memory devices for them, then hot-add code is called
for already recognized memory, and it shows fail messages with -EEXIST.
So, sys admin will misunderstand this message as something wrong by it.
This patch avoids them by preventing redundant hot-add call until
completion of driver initialization.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
struct list_head res_list;
};
+static int acpi_hotmem_initialized;
+
static acpi_status
acpi_memory_get_resource(struct acpi_resource *resource, void *context)
{
struct acpi_memory_device *mem_device;
int result = 0;
+ /*
+ * Early boot code has recognized memory area by EFI/E820.
+ * If DSDT shows these memory devices on boot, hotplug is not necessary
+ * for them. So, it just returns until completion of this driver's
+ * start up.
+ */
+ if (!acpi_hotmem_initialized)
+ return 0;
+
mem_device = acpi_driver_data(device);
if (!acpi_memory_check_device(mem_device)) {
return -ENODEV;
}
+ acpi_hotmem_initialized = 1;
return 0;
}