Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] memblock: Remove unused exact nid allocation API

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Thu Sep 24 2026 - 03:51:45 EST


Hi,

> Commit ffe55393137c ("mm/sparse: remove sparse buffer pre-allocation
> mechanism") removed the only memmap_alloc() caller that requested an
> allocation from an exact NUMA node. All remaining callers allow fallback
> to other nodes, leaving the exact_nid argument unused.

Overall this looks good to me. There's is an issue though that mentioning
commit in mm-unstable in the changelog does not really work because the
commit sha may change.

Andrew, how do you suggest to deal with it?

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.