linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/sparse: add common helper to mark all memblocks present

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Message-Id: <20181207115626.dd578402f407e3df798aad0c@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:56:26 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/sparse: add common helper to mark all memblocks
 present

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:40:31 -0700 Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com> wrote:

> Hey Andrew,
> 
> On 2018-11-07 1:12 p.m., Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> > 
> > I can grab both patches and shall sneak them into 4.20-rcX, but feel
> > free to merge them into some git tree if you'd prefer.  If I see them
> > turn up in linux-next I shall drop my copy.
> 
> Just wanted to check if you are still planning to get these patches into
> 4.20-rcX. It would really help us if you can do this seeing we then
> won't have to delay a cycle and can target the riscv sparsemem code for
> 4.21.
> 

Ah, OK, I assumed that it would be merged via an arm tree.

I moved 

mm-introduce-common-struct_page_max_shift-define.patch
mm-sparse-add-common-helper-to-mark-all-memblocks-present.patch

to head-of-queue.  Shall send to Linus next week.