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SubjectRe: [patch v2 3/6] mm/memory_hotplug: Disable memory hotremove for 32bit
(5/26/13 2:09 PM), Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 26-05-13 07:58:42, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>>> As KOSAKI Motohiro mentioned, memory hotplug don't support 32bit since
>>>> it was born,
>>>
>>> Why? any reference? This reasoning is really weak.
>>
>> I have no seen any highmem support in memory hotplug code and I don't think this
>> patch fixes all 32bit highmem issue. If anybody are interesting to
>> support it, it is good thing. But in fact, _now_ it is broken when
>> enable HIGHMEM.
>> So, I just want to mark broken until someone want to support highmem
>> and verify overall.
>>
>> And, yes, this patch is no good. Kconfig doesn't describe why disable
>> when highmem.
>> So,
>>
>> depends on 64BIT || !HIGHMEM || BROKEN
>>
>> maybe clear documentation more.
>
> I have no objection to disbale the feature for HIGHMEM configurations I
> was merely complaining that the patch didn't describe _why_.

No worry. I withdrew the claim because several people now willing to contribute
32bit highmem improvement. I don't want to block them.




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