From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp [192.51.44.35]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24D492C0081 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:44:19 +1100 (EST) Received: from m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (unknown [10.0.50.73]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E99F3EE0C0 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:44:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from smail (m3 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06B8945DEB5 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:44:15 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.93]) by m3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E332345DEB2 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:44:14 +0900 (JST) Received: from s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A4B1DB803B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:44:14 +0900 (JST) Received: from g01jpexchkw02.g01.fujitsu.local (g01jpexchkw02.g01.fujitsu.local [10.0.194.41]) by s3.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923021DB8038 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:44:14 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <50B55E28.1030608@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:43:20 +0900 From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Patch v4 00/12] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory References: <1354010422-19648-1-git-send-email-wency@cn.fujitsu.com> <20121127112741.b616c2f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121127112741.b616c2f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Wen Congyang , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmetcalf@tilera.com, Jianguo Wu , linux-mm@kvack.org, paulus@samba.org, Minchan Kim , KOSAKI Motohiro , David Rientjes , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jiang Liu List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Andrew, 2012/11/28 4:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:10 +0800 > Wen Congyang wrote: > >> The patch-set was divided from following thread's patch-set. >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/5/201 >> >> The last version of this patchset: >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/1/93 > > As we're now at -rc7 I'd prefer to take a look at all of this after the > 3.7 release - please resend everything shortly after 3.8-rc1. Almost patches about memory hotplug has been merged into your and Rafael's tree. And these patches are waiting to open the v3.8 merge window. Remaining patches are only this patch-set. So we hope that this patch-set is merged into v3.8. In merging this patch-set into v3.8, Linux on x86_64 makes a memory hot plug possible. Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu > >> If you want to know the reason, please read following thread. >> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/83 > > Please include the rationale within each version of the patchset rather > than by linking to an old email. Because > > a) this way, more people are likely to read it > > b) it permits the text to be maimtained as the code evolves > > c) it permits the text to be included in the mainlnie commit, where > people can find it. > >> The patch-set has only the function of kernel core side for physical >> memory hot remove. So if you use the patch, please apply following >> patches. >> >> - bug fix for memory hot remove >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/31/269 >> >> - acpi framework >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/26/175 > > What's happening with the acpi framework? has it received any feedback > from the ACPI developers? >