Re: [PATCH 5/5] RISC-V: Implement sparsemem

Palmer Dabbelt
2018-10-15T17:39:33Z

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 05:18:20 PDT (-0700), sbates@raithlin.com wrote:
> Palmer
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>> I don't really know anything about this, but you're welcome to add a
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>> Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
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> Thanks. I think it would be good to get someone who's familiar with linux/mm to take a look.
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>> if you think it'll help. I'm assuming you're targeting a different tree for
>> the patch set, in which case it's probably best to keep this together with the
>> rest of it.
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> No I think this series should be pulled by the RISC-V maintainer. The other patches in this series just refactor some code and need to be ACK'ed by their ARCH developers but I suspect the series should be pulled into RISC-V. That said since it does touch other arch should it be pulled by mm?
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> BTW note that RISC-V SPARSEMEM support is pretty useful for all manner of things and not just the p2pdma discussed in the cover.

Ah, OK -- I thought this was adding the support everywhere. Do you mind
re-sending the patches with the various acks/reviews and I'll put in on
for-next?

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>> Thanks for porting your stuff to RISC-V!
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> You bet ;-)