From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
"Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com" <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - resend] Memory-Hotplug: Fix the bug on interface /dev/mem for 64-bit kernel(v1)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:38:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4BD281.4080009@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100112093031.0fc6877f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Hmmm....could you rewrite /dev/mem to use kernel/resource.c other than
> modifing e820 maps. ?
Sorry but responding to bug fixes with "could you please rewrite ..." is
not considered fair. Shaohui is just trying to fix a bug here, not redesigning
a subsystem.
> Two reasons.
> - e820map is considerted to be stable, read-only after boot.
> - We don't need to add more x86 special codes.
We need working memory hotadd.
-Andi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-08 3:32 [PATCH - resend] Memory-Hotplug: Fix the bug on interface /dev/mem for 64-bit kernel(v1) Zheng, Shaohui
2010-01-08 5:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-08 5:18 ` Zheng, Shaohui
2010-01-08 19:47 ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-12 0:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-08 12:48 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-11 2:20 ` Zheng, Shaohui
2010-01-11 12:43 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 0:30 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 1:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2010-01-12 1:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 1:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 2:45 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 2:33 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 2:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-01-12 13:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 23:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-01-13 2:29 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-01-12 5:45 ` Zheng, Shaohui
2010-01-12 5:51 ` Zheng, Shaohui
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