linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2008-09-22-01-36 uploaded (memory

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Message-Id: <1222211692.6491.12.camel@badari-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:14:52 -0700
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, lethal@...ux-sh.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2008-09-22-01-36 uploaded (memory_hotplug)

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:08:22 -0700
> Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > so it is defined in both mm/memory_hotplug.c and
> > > > arch/x86/mm/init_64.c when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE=y.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > OK, thanks, it looks like people are changing things under our feet.
> > > 
> > > Badari, can you please check this fix against
> > > mm-cleanup-to-make-remove_memory-arch-neutral.patch?
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > When I made the patch, only ppc64, ia64 and s390 had
> > memory_remove() support in mainline. I sent a patch against
> > x86 to add hotplug memory remove support. I guess you
> > merged Gary's patch and sh-arch patch.
> > 
> > I noticed that you cleaned up all these and added to -mm.
> > Do you want me to merge all these into a single patch and 
> > resend it (against -mm) ?
> 
> No, that's OK.
> 
> > (It will look exactly the same
> > anyway).
> 
> Does that mean you reviewed all the fixes I added?  We're sure that all
> the per-arch implementations of remove_memory() can be replaced by the
> generic one?

Yes. I just reviewed all these patches in mmtom 2008-09-23. 
They looked fine. There is no need for arch-specific ones.

Thanks,
Badari

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