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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	anton@au1.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] hotplug memory remove - walk_memory_resource for ppc64
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:46:13 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101004613.37fee22f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193846560.17412.3.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:02:40 -0800
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Paul's concern is, since we didn't need it so far - why we need this
> for hotplug memory remove to work ? It might break API for *unknown*
> applications. Its unfortunate that, hotplug memory add updates 
> /proc/iomem. We can deal with it later, as a separate patch.
> 
I have no objection to skip /proc/iomem related routine when arch
doesn't need it. 

My advice is just "please take care both of hot-add and hot-remove".

If ppc64 people agreed to use arch-specific routine for detect
conventional memory, there is no problem, I think.

Thanks,
-Kame

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-02 17:29 [RFC] PPC64 Exporting memory information through /proc/iomem Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-02 20:11 ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-02 20:37   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-02 20:50     ` Geoff Levand
2007-10-02 22:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-10-02 23:10   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-03  1:19     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-03 15:35       ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-03 16:25         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-03 16:40           ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-30 19:19   ` [RFC] hotplug memory remove - walk_memory_resource for ppc64 Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-31  5:28     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-31  5:34       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-31 16:02         ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-31 15:46           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [this message]
2007-10-31 16:48         ` [PATCH 0/3] hotplug memory remove support for PPC64 Badari Pulavarty
2007-10-31 16:10       ` [RFC] hotplug memory remove - walk_memory_resource for ppc64 Badari Pulavarty

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