Re: [PATCH 1/8] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jul 05 2011 - 07:28:42 EST


On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Memory hotplug is a logic for making pages unused in the specified
> range of pfn. So, some of core logics can be used for other purpose
> as allocating a very large contigous memory block.
>
> This patch moves some functions from mm/memory_hotplug.c to
> mm/page_isolation.c. This helps adding a function for large-alloc in
> page_isolation.c with memory-unplug technique.
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [m.nazarewicz: reworded commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> [m.szyprowski: rebased and updated to Linux v3.0-rc1]
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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