Re: [PATCH V5 - Rebased] mm/hotplug: Reorder memblock_[free|remove]() calls in try_remove_memory()

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:53:33 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> - Rebased on linux-next (next-20190611)
> >>
> >> Yet the patch you've prepared is designed for 5.3.  Was that
> >> deliberate, or should we be targeting earlier kernels?
> > 
> > It was deliberate for 5.3 as a preparation for upcoming reworked arm64 hot-remove.
> > 
> 
> We should probably add to the patch description something like "This is
> a preparation for arm64 memory hotremove. The described issue is not
> relevant on other architectures."

Please.  And is there any reason to merge it separately?  Can it be
[patch 1/3] in the "arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove" series?