linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] mm/memblock: Add support for excluded memory areas

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Message-Id: <20140114140117.bff3db92027fea9eb6f2af7f@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:01:17 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	qiuxishi@...wei.com, dhowells@...hat.com, daeseok.youn@...il.com,
	liuj97@...il.com, yinghai@...nel.org, zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com,
	santosh.shilimkar@...com, grygorii.strashko@...com,
	tangchen@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] mm/memblock: Add support for excluded memory
 areas

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:53 +0100 Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Am Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:36:20 -0800
> schrieb Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>:
> 
> > Patch is big.  I'll toss this in for some testing but it does look too
> > large and late for 3.14.  How will this affect your s390 development?
> 
> It is needed for s390 bootmem -> memblock transition. The s390 dump
> mechanisms cannot be switched to memblock (from using something s390
> specific called memory_chunk) without the nomap list.
> I'm also working on another enhancement on s390 that will rely on a
> clean transition to memblock.
> 
> I have written and tested the stuff on top of our local development
> tree. And then realised that it does not fit the linux-next tree. So I
> converted it to fit linux-next and posted it. Have to maintain two
> versions now. 

So at 3.14-rc1 everything will come good - get the review issues sorted
out, add the patch to your tree (and hence linux-next).
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