[PATCH Bug fix 0/5] Bug fix for physical memory hot-remove.

Michal Hocko mhocko at suse.cz
Sat Jan 26 00:17:40 EST 2013


On Wed 23-01-13 06:29:31, Simon Jeons wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 19:42 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> > Here are some bug fix patches for physical memory hot-remove. All these
> > patches are based on the latest -mm tree.
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git akpm
> > 
> > And patch1 and patch3 are very important.
> > patch1: free compound pages when freeing memmap, otherwise the kernel
> >         will panic the next time memory is hot-added.
> > patch3: the old way of freeing pagetable pages was wrong. We should never
> >         split larger pages into small ones.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi Tang,
> 
> I remember your big physical memory hot-remove patchset has already
> merged by Andrew, but where I can find it? Could you give me git tree 
> address?

Andrew tree is also mirrored into a git tree.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mhocko/mm.git;a=summary

It contains only Memory management patches on top of the last major
release (since-.X.Y branch).
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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