From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why no bigphysarea in mainline?
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:42:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200503181442.51830.michael@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111070132.19021.31.camel@localhost>
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:35, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Doing mem= for drivers isn't just a hack, it's *WRONG*. It's a ticking
> time bomb that magically happens to work on some systems. It will not
> work consistently on a discontiguous memory system, or a memory hotplug
> system.
I couldn't agree more. Problem is I've been asked to change the way mem=X
works on PPC64 so that this hack will work, which is a horrible thought.
> Could you give some examples of drivers which are in the kernel that
> could benefit from this patch? We don't tend to put things like this
> in, unless they have actual users. We don't tend to change code for
> out-of-tree users, either.
No I can't. I've been approached by several "vendors" asking about using mem=X
hacks on PPC64, however I doubt any of them have code in-tree. I'll check
though.
cheers
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2005-03-17 9:57 Why no bigphysarea in mainline? Michael Ellerman
2005-03-17 14:35 ` Dave Hansen
2005-03-18 3:42 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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