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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area/lmb_free_area
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:53:42 +1000
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On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:09 -0700, Yinghai wrote:
> those functions have __init markers, and only can be used on boot
> stage. so do need to worry about hotplug mem.
> 
> what I do is: use current lmb code for x86, and keep the affects to
> original lmb users to minimum. (should be near 0)

But that's just wrong. You are just duplicating functionality all over
the place. That doesn't make any sense.

Cheers,
Ben.