From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:43:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Patch v4 00/12] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory Message-Id: <50B55E28.1030608@jp.fujitsu.com> List-Id: References: <1354010422-19648-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com> <20121127112741.b616c2f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121127112741.b616c2f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Wen Congyang , x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Jiang Liu , Len Brown , benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, Christoph Lameter , Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , Jianguo Wu Hi Andrew, 2012/11/28 4:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:10 +0800 > Wen Congyang wrote: > >> The patch-set was divided from following thread's patch-set. >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/5/201 >> >> The last version of this patchset: >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/1/93 > > As we're now at -rc7 I'd prefer to take a look at all of this after the > 3.7 release - please resend everything shortly after 3.8-rc1. Almost patches about memory hotplug has been merged into your and Rafael's tree. And these patches are waiting to open the v3.8 merge window. Remaining patches are only this patch-set. So we hope that this patch-set is merged into v3.8. In merging this patch-set into v3.8, Linux on x86_64 makes a memory hot plug possible. Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu > >> If you want to know the reason, please read following thread. >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/83 > > Please include the rationale within each version of the patchset rather > than by linking to an old email. Because > > a) this way, more people are likely to read it > > b) it permits the text to be maimtained as the code evolves > > c) it permits the text to be included in the mainlnie commit, where > people can find it. > >> The patch-set has only the function of kernel core side for physical >> memory hot remove. So if you use the patch, please apply following >> patches. >> >> - bug fix for memory hot remove >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/31/269 >> >> - acpi framework >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/26/175 > > What's happening with the acpi framework? has it received any feedback > from the ACPI developers? >