From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756692AbYD3Myd (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:54:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760665AbYD3MyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:54:00 -0400 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:41559 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757149AbYD3Mxy (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:53:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:53:18 +0900 From: Yasunori Goto To: David Miller Subject: Re: sparc64 bootup regression... Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki In-Reply-To: <20080430163355.4b4f23ec.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20080430.002530.189687792.davem@davemloft.net> <20080430163355.4b4f23ec.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer-Plugin: BkASPil for Becky!2 Ver.2.068 Message-Id: <20080430213831.F808.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.45 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) > David Miller wrote: > > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:15:40 +0900 > > > > > How about this ? If this is messy (or doesn't work), Goto-san will rework > > > his own patch by himself. (this patch is against -mm but I think no HUNK to > > > git tree) > > > > This makes the original change pointless. > > > It seems the orignal change expects NODE_DATA() is allocated at boottime. > not in .bss section. > > > If the goal is to put the usemap in the same section as the memory > > itself, in order to allow for it to be freed during memory hotplug, > > this new change just makes the facility not work some of the time. > > > yes, at least, WARNING is necessary. > > > Now maybe sometimes it will work, maybe sometimes it will not. > > > > It's not the end of the world if this change is reverted for a few > > days while we work out what to do about this. > > > yes ;) > > > Really, it does not reflect badly upon you or Goto-san, if the change > > is reverted temporarily. > > > Okay, I agree to revert it. David-san. Thanks for your report. I agree to revert it too. I'll reconsider around here. Unfortunately, I can't access my box to make newer patch until 5/11, because I'm on vacation. Probably, I'm not able to post newer patch in merge window.... Oh my..... :-( Bye. -- Yasunori Goto