From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from song.cn.fujitsu.com (unknown [222.73.24.84]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 609D02C0082 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:44:01 +1100 (EST) From: Tang Chen 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 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> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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(-)