Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:01:17 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] mm/memblock: Add support for excluded memory areas |
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:53 +0100 Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Am Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:36:20 -0800 > schrieb Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: > > > Patch is big. I'll toss this in for some testing but it does look too > > large and late for 3.14. How will this affect your s390 development? > > It is needed for s390 bootmem -> memblock transition. The s390 dump > mechanisms cannot be switched to memblock (from using something s390 > specific called memory_chunk) without the nomap list. > I'm also working on another enhancement on s390 that will rely on a > clean transition to memblock. > > I have written and tested the stuff on top of our local development > tree. And then realised that it does not fit the linux-next tree. So I > converted it to fit linux-next and posted it. Have to maintain two > versions now.
So at 3.14-rc1 everything will come good - get the review issues sorted out, add the patch to your tree (and hence linux-next).
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