Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:33:55 +0900 | From | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: sparc64 bootup regression... |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:40 +0900 > > > How about this ? If this is messy (or doesn't work), Goto-san will rework > > his own patch by himself. (this patch is against -mm but I think no HUNK to > > git tree) > > This makes the original change pointless. > It seems the orignal change expects NODE_DATA() is allocated at boottime. not in .bss section.
> If the goal is to put the usemap in the same section as the memory > itself, in order to allow for it to be freed during memory hotplug, > this new change just makes the facility not work some of the time. > yes, at least, WARNING is necessary.
> Now maybe sometimes it will work, maybe sometimes it will not. > > It's not the end of the world if this change is reverted for a few > days while we work out what to do about this. > yes ;)
> Really, it does not reflect badly upon you or Goto-san, if the change > is reverted temporarily. > Okay, I agree to revert it.
Thanks, -Kame
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