From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:51:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [IA64] rework memory attribute aliasing Message-Id: <200605080851.41136.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: <200605051719.50884.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200605051719.50884.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:42, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > At memory hotplug, efi information cannot be updated. In -mm kernel, > hot added memory is registed to /proc/iomem (iomem_resouce). > > Can't we able to write kern_mem_attribute() by using kernel/resouce.c ? > (add new flag if needed..) > > Now, efi_initialize_iomem_resources() already registers efi information to > iomem_resource. I didn't address hot-plug memory at all. You're right that something should be done in that area. I don't know enough about memory hotplug to do anything useful myself, though.