[Cbe-oss-dev] [Lhms-devel] Re: [RFC] spufs: memory-add fix for CONFIG_NUMA

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Apr 12 08:25:06 EST 2006


Am Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:58 schrieb Dave Hansen:
> How about we poison the unused mem_map[] pages in  the areas of the
> section which aren't full?
>
> That way, we can keep track in case any goofballs try to add the same
> memory a couple of times, or try to remove memory that wasn't there.

Yes, that would make sense. I was under the impression that memory-remove
is far from the state where it gets merged to the mainline kernel so we
would not have to worry about that in the first place. What is the state
of that now?

	Arnd <><



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