From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:64029 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932105Ab1GEL2i (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:28:38 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Marek Szyprowski Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:27:53 +0200 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Michal Nazarewicz , Kyungmin Park , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ankita Garg , Daniel Walker , Mel Gorman , Jesse Barker , Jonathan Corbet , Chunsang Jeong References: <1309851710-3828-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1309851710-3828-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <1309851710-3828-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107051327.53430.arnd@arndb.de> List-ID: Sender: On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > Memory hotplug is a logic for making pages unused in the specified > range of pfn. So, some of core logics can be used for other purpose > as allocating a very large contigous memory block. > > This patch moves some functions from mm/memory_hotplug.c to > mm/page_isolation.c. This helps adding a function for large-alloc in > page_isolation.c with memory-unplug technique. > > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > [m.nazarewicz: reworded commit message] > Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park > [m.szyprowski: rebased and updated to Linux v3.0-rc1] > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski > CC: Michal Nazarewicz Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann