Re: [RFC v9 PATCH 16/21] memory-hotplug: free memmap of sparse-vmemmap

2012-10-06 Thread Ni zhan Chen
On 10/04/2012 02:26 PM, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: Hi Chen, Sorry for late reply. 2012/10/02 13:21, Ni zhan Chen wrote: On 09/05/2012 05:25 PM, we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu All pages of virtual mapping in removed memory cannot be freed, since some pages used as PGD/PUD

Re: [RFC v9 PATCH 16/21] memory-hotplug: free memmap of sparse-vmemmap

2012-10-03 Thread Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Hi Chen, Sorry for late reply. 2012/10/02 13:21, Ni zhan Chen wrote: On 09/05/2012 05:25 PM, we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu All pages of virtual mapping in removed memory cannot be freed, since some pages used as PGD/PUD includes not only removed memory but also other me

Re: [RFC v9 PATCH 16/21] memory-hotplug: free memmap of sparse-vmemmap

2012-10-01 Thread Ni zhan Chen
On 09/05/2012 05:25 PM, we...@cn.fujitsu.com wrote: From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu All pages of virtual mapping in removed memory cannot be freed, since some pages used as PGD/PUD includes not only removed memory but also other memory. So the patch checks whether page can be freed or not. How to chec

[RFC v9 PATCH 16/21] memory-hotplug: free memmap of sparse-vmemmap

2012-09-05 Thread wency
From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu All pages of virtual mapping in removed memory cannot be freed, since some pages used as PGD/PUD includes not only removed memory but also other memory. So the patch checks whether page can be freed or not. How to check whether page can be freed or not? 1. When removing