[PATCH] drivers/base: export gpl (un)register_memory_notifier

Dave Hansen haveblue at us.ibm.com
Fri Feb 15 04:38:45 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:36 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> I am not sure what you are trying to do with walk_memory_resource().
> The
> behavior is different on ppc64. Hotplug memory usage assumes that all
> the memory resources (all system memory, not just IOMEM) are
> represented
> in /proc/iomem. Its the case with i386 and ia64. But on ppc64 is
> contains ONLY iomem related. Paulus didn't want to export all the
> system
> memory into /proc/iomem on ppc64. So I had to workaround by providing
> arch-specific walk_memory_resource() function for ppc64.

OK, let's use that one.

-- Dave




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