linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, sparse: fix typo in online_mem

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Date:   Tue, 5 Sep 2017 12:32:28 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, sparse: fix typo in online_mem_sections

On 09/04/2017 04:52 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> online_mem_sections accidentally marks online only the first section in
> the given range. This is a typo which hasn't been noticed because I
> haven't tested large 2GB blocks previously. All users of

Section sizes are normally less than 2GB. Could you please elaborate
why this never got noticed before ?