From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:15:34 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell Message-ID: <20061218221534.GB25472@infradead.org> References: <20061215165335.61D9F775@localhost.localdomain> <4582D756.7090702@shadowen.org> <1166203440.8105.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061215114536.dc5c93af.akpm@osdl.org> <20061216170353.2dfa27b1.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1166476437.8648.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1166476437.8648.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave Hansen Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , apw@shadowen.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mkravetz@us.ibm.com, hch@infradead.org, jk@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, gone@us.ibm.com, kmannth@us.ibm.com List-ID: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:13:57PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 17:03 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > /* add this memory to iomem resource */ > > static struct resource *register_memory_resource(u64 start, u64 size) > > { > > @@ -273,10 +284,13 @@ > > if (ret) > > goto error; > > } > > + atomic_inc(&memory_hotadd_count); > > > > /* call arch's memory hotadd */ > > ret = arch_add_memory(nid, start, size); > > > > + atomic_dec(&memory_hotadd_count); > > I'd be willing to be that this will work just fine. But, I think we can > do it without any static state at all, if we just pass a runtime-or-not > flag down into the arch_add_memory() call chain. > > I'll code that up so we can compare to yours. Yes, I stronly concur that passing an explicit flag is much much better than any hack involving global state. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org