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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Yasunori Goto wrote:
> Hi Badari-san.
>
>   
>> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 12:54 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 10:55 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>>>       
>>>> +               if (memmap)
>>>> +                       __kfree_section_memmap(memmap, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>>>> +               return;
>>>> +       }
>>>> +
>>>> +       /*
>>>> +        * Allocations came from bootmem - how do I free up ?
>>>> +        */
>>>> +
>>>>         
>>> Shouldn't we figure this one out before merging?
>>>
>>> I think we at least need a printk() there.
>>>       
>> I can add a printk(). I am hoping Yasunori Goto has something to
>> handle this, before we really merge into mainline.
>>     
>
> Ah, yes. 
> I'm making patches for around here. I'm sorry for your waiting.
>
> BTW, do you hurry for merging your patch? 
> To be honest, I would like to solve not only here
> but also some other issues.
> But, if you hurry, I'll concentrate to solve only this.
>
> Bye.
>   
I am hoping to merge this into 2.6.26. I am not in a hurry, but would like
to make sure some one is working on the issue. If you have something
to test, feel free to pass it to me - I will be happy to test.

Thanks,
Badari