[PATCH 1/5] generic __remove_pages() support

Badari Pulavarty pbadari at us.ibm.com
Sat Mar 8 03:36:21 EST 2008


Yasunori Goto wrote:
> Hi Badari-san.
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:54 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:55 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>>>       
>>>> +               if (memmap)
>>>> +                       __kfree_section_memmap(memmap, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>>>> +               return;
>>>> +       }
>>>> +
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * Allocations came from bootmem - how do I free up ?
>>>> +        */
>>>> +
>>>>         
>>> Shouldn't we figure this one out before merging?
>>>
>>> I think we at least need a printk() there.
>>>       
>> I can add a printk(). I am hoping Yasunori Goto has something to
>> handle this, before we really merge into mainline.
>>     
>
> Ah, yes. 
> I'm making patches for around here. I'm sorry for your waiting.
>
> BTW, do you hurry for merging your patch? 
> To be honest, I would like to solve not only here
> but also some other issues.
> But, if you hurry, I'll concentrate to solve only this.
>
> Bye.
>
>   
I am hoping to get all of this merged into 2.6.26.  Till then I would 
like this to
be tested in -mm. I am not in a hurry, but I would like to make sure 
some one is
working on the issue. Please let me know, if you have something to test 
- I will
be happy to help out.

Thanks,
Badari




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