From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx155.postini.com [74.125.245.155]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 963EF6B0004 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 06:43:57 -0500 (EST) From: Tang Chen Subject: [PATCH Bug fix 0/5] Bug fix for physical memory hot-remove. Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:42:59 +0800 Message-Id: <1358854984-6073-1-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, rientjes@google.com, len.brown@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, cl@linux.com, minchan.kim@gmail.com, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, wujianguo@huawei.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, hpa@zytor.com, linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, mgorman@suse.de, yinghai@kernel.org, glommer@parallels.com, jiang.liu@huawei.com, julian.calaby@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Here are some bug fix patches for physical memory hot-remove. All these patches are based on the latest -mm tree. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git akpm And patch1 and patch3 are very important. patch1: free compound pages when freeing memmap, otherwise the kernel will panic the next time memory is hot-added. patch3: the old way of freeing pagetable pages was wrong. We should never split larger pages into small ones. Lai Jiangshan (1): Bug-fix: mempolicy: fix is_valid_nodemask() Tang Chen (3): Bug fix: Do not split pages when freeing pagetable pages. Bug fix: Fix section mismatch problem of release_firmware_map_entry(). Bug fix: Fix the doc format in drivers/firmware/memmap.c Wen Congyang (1): Bug fix: consider compound pages when free memmap arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 148 ++++++++++++++------------------------------- drivers/firmware/memmap.c | 16 +++--- mm/mempolicy.c | 36 +++++++---- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org