[PATCH 1/3] Add remove_memory() for ppc64

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com
Thu Nov 1 11:46:29 EST 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:55:03 -0700
Dave Hansen <haveblue at us.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:11 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > 
> > Well, We don't need arch-specific remove_memory() for ia64 and ppc64.
> > x86_64, I don't know. We will know, only when some one does the
> > verification. I don't need arch_remove_memory() hook also at this
> > time.
> 
> I wasn't being very clear.  I say, add the arch hook only if you need
> it.  But, for now, just take the ia64 code and make it generic.  
> 

remove_memory() has been arch-specific since there was no piece of unplug
code. And I didn't merge it to be generic when I implemented ia64 ver.

Hmm...I have no objection to merge them. But let's see how memory hotremove
for ppc64 works for a while. We can merge them later.

I'm glad to have new testers :)

Thanks,
-Kame




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