Sorry for late response. I went on a vacation in last week. And I'm in the mountain of a ton of unread mail now....
> > Mel's moveable-zone work. > > These patches are what creates ZONE_MOVABLE. The last 6 patches should be > collapsed into a single patch: > > handle-kernelcore=-generic > > I believe Yasunori Goto is looking at these from the perspective of memory > hot-remove and has caught a few bugs in the past. Goto-san may be able to > comment on whether they have been reviewed recently. Hmm, I don't think my review is enough. To be precise, I'm just one user/tester of ZONE_MOVABLE. I have tried to make memory remove patches with Mel-san's ZONE_MOVABLE patch. And the bugs are things that I found in its work. (I'll post these patches in a few days.) > The main complexity is in one function in patch one which determines where > the PFN is in each node for ZONE_MOVABLE. Getting that right so that the > requested amount of kernel memory spread as evenly as possible is just > not straight-forward. >From memory-hotplug view, ZONE_MOVABLE should be aligned by section size. But MAX_ORDER alignment is enough for others... Bye. -- Yasunori Goto - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
