Re: [PATCH] sparsemem interaction with memory add bug fixes

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Apr 12 2006 - 10:47:28 EST


On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:33 -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> This patch fixes two bugs with the way sparsemem interacts with memory
> add. They are:
> - memory leak if memmap for section already exists
> - calling alloc_bootmem_node() after boot
> These bugs were discovered and a first cut at the fixes were provided by
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> and Joel Schopp <jschopp@xxxxxxxxxx>.

At first glance, these seem fine to me.

Just out of curiosity. Can these issues be revealed with current code,
or do they only show up with the cell changes?

-- Dave

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