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Message-Id: <20100115143812.b70161d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:38:12 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@...el.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"ak@...ux.intel.com" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"y-goto@...fujitsu.com" <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-RESEND v4] memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap
 entry for new memory

On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:00:11 +0800
"Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@...el.com> wrote:

> memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for hot-added memory
> 
> Interface firmware_map_add was not called in explict, Remove it and add function
> firmware_map_add_hotplug as hotplug interface of memmap.
> 
> When we hot-add new memory, sysfs does not export memmap entry for it. we add
>  a call in function add_memory to function firmware_map_add_hotplug.
> 
> Add a new function add_sysfs_fw_map_entry to create memmap entry, it can avoid 
> duplicated codes.

The patch causes an early exception in kmem_cache_alloc_notrace() -
probably due to a null cache pointer.

config: http://master.kernel.org/~akpm/config-akpm2.txt
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