From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] linux: ARM: memmap: Revise freeing unused memmap entries for SPARSEMEM
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:13:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120329121313.GF22414@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120329190252.3895.38390934@jp.panasonic.com>
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:02:52PM +0900, Akira Takeuchi wrote:
> F0-F4 is the unused memory regions and their corresponding memmap entries
> can be freed. However, free_unused_memmap() only frees the entries for
> F1/F2/F4, and does not free the entries for F0/F3.
No we're not going to support having free areas at the start of an
otherwise populated bank of memory. This is just insane. Fix your
hardware instead or your sparsemem setup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-29 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 10:01 [PATCH 1/2] linux: sparsemem: Initialize all memmap entries within sections Akira Takeuchi
2012-03-29 10:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] linux: ARM: memmap: Revise freeing unused memmap entries for SPARSEMEM Akira Takeuchi
2012-03-29 12:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2012-03-30 1:27 ` Akira Takeuchi
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