Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 62/95] mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section

Sasha Levin
2019-05-07T17:02:24Z

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:50:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 9:31 AM Alexander Duyck
><alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wasn't this patch reverted in Linus's tree for causing a regression on
>> some platforms? If so I'm not sure we should pull this in as a
>> candidate for stable should we, or am I missing something?
>
>Good catch. It was reverted in commit 4aa9fc2a435a ("Revert "mm,
>memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory
>section"").
>
>We ended up with efad4e475c31 ("mm, memory_hotplug:
>is_mem_section_removable do not pass the end of a zone") instead (and
>possibly others - this was just from looking for commit messages that
>mentioned that reverted commit).

I got it wrong then. I'll fix it up and get efad4e475c31 in instead.
Thanks!

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Thanks,
Sasha