linux-kernel - Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes [4/5] avoid check in acpi

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Message-Id: <20060804145919.34ccbfe0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:59:19 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	kmannth@...ibm.com, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lhms-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes [4/5] avoid check in
 acpi

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:46:53 +0900
Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> BTW, I prefer that we should fix only bug at this time for 2.6.18.
> But, I really confusing that current patches are for only bug fix or
> including for small memory hole case.
> IIRC, small memory hole need more works. So, it should be 2.6.19
> or later. Right?
> Kame-san, could you divide between just fix patch and considering
> small hole case? Or all of patches are for only bug fix?
> 
Hm.

patch [1/5], [2/5], [3/5], [5/5]  are *necessary* bug fixes.
patch [4/5] is for memory hot add with small chunks.

But in other view, it's bug that only the first memory chunk can be added
at hot-add if there is small memory hole in a section 

Thanks,
-Kame

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