linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] mm/sparse.c: add note about only VMEMMAP supporting sub-section support

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Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:20:52 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, david@...hat.com,
        richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        osalvador@...e.de, rppt@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] mm/sparse.c: add note about only VMEMMAP
 supporting sub-section support

On 03/10/20 at 03:46pm, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sat 07-03-20 16:42:27, Baoquan He wrote:
> > And tell check_pfn_span() gating the porper alignment and size of
> > hot added memory region.
> > 
> > And also move the code comments from inside section_deactivate()
> > to being above it. The code comments are reasonable for the whole
> > function, and the moving makes code cleaner.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
> I have glanced through other patches and they seem sane but I do not
> have time to go deeper to give an ack. I like this one though because it
> really makes the intention clearer.

Thanks for your reviewing and providing ack on this patch.

I will post a new version to rebase on the top of patch 1 and its
appended fix, then address those concerns from David.