linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/platform/UV: Update Memory Block Size Setting

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Message-ID: <20180511064837.GB23231@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 11 May 2018 08:48:37 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     mike.travis@....com
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <dimitri.sivanich@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@....com>,
        Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@....com>, jgross@...e.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86/platform/UV: Update Memory Block Size Setting

On Thu 10-05-18 18:18:32, mike.travis@....com wrote:
> 
> Update support for the UV kernel to accommodate Intel BIOS changes in
> NVDIMM alignment, which caused UV BIOS to align the memory boundaries
> on different blocks than the previous UV standard of 2GB.

Please elaborate (much) more. What is the actual problem and how is the
patchset addressing it.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs