Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:10:03 +0900 | From | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: 2.6.14-mm2 |
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Dave Hansen wrote: > Hmmm. I _think_ you're just trying to do some things at runtime that I > didn't intend. In the patch I pointed to in the last mail, look at what > I did in hot_add_zone_init(). It does some of what > free_area_init_core() does, but only the most minimal bits. Basically: > > zone_wait_table_init(zone, size_pages); > init_currently_empty_zone(zone, phys_start_pfn, size_pages); > zone_pcp_init(zone); > > Your way may also be valid, but I broke out init_currently_empty_zone() > for a reason, and I think this was it. I don't think we want to be > calling free_area_init_core() itself at runtime. >
I understand what is missing.. "add new zone" function is not in -mm kernel. So, I can't add new pages into Highmem which is empty at boot time. Could you post your "add new zone" patch to -mm ?
-- Kame
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