linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous v2.

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Date:	Wed, 2 Apr 2008 21:16:05 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Badari Pulavarty" <pbadari@...ibm.com>, michael@...erman.id.au,
	"Kamalesh Babulal" <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"kernel list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous v2.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:30:24 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel.send@...il.com> wrote:
>
>  > v2 replace:
>  >       [PATCH] mm: make mem_map allocation continuous.
>  >       [PATCH] mm: allocate section_map for sparse_init
>  >       [PATCH] mm: allocate usemap at first instead of mem_map in sparse_init
>  >
>
>  err, no.
>
>
>  >
>  > diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>  > index f6a43c0..2881222 100644
>  > --- a/mm/sparse.c
>  > +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>
>  Sorry, but I'd rather not do it this way.  We presently have this:
>

it replaces

>  mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous.patch
>  mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous-checkpatch-fixes.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-update-fix.patch
>  mm-allocate-section_map-for-sparse_init-powerpc-fix.patch

others still needed

so mm-make-mem-map-allocation-continuous.patch will not break powerpc and ia64

YH
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