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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:00:01 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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* Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> wrote:

> > I dunno. If x86 maintainers are OK with this then why not, but I do not
> > like how this is x86 specific. I would much rather address this by
> > making the memblock user interface more sane.
> >
> 
> Hi Michal,
> 
> Ingo Molnar reviewed this patch, and Okayed it.

But I'd not be against robustifying the whole generic interface against such 
misconfiguration either.

But having the warning should be enough in practice, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo