Messages in this thread | | | From | "Zheng, Shaohui" <> | Date | Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:08:41 +0800 | Subject | RE: [PATCH-RESEND v4] memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for new memory |
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It is very strange issue since I already test it before sending it out, I will retry it in local.
Thanks & Regards, Shaohui
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:38 AM To: Zheng, Shaohui Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; ak@linux.intel.com; y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com; Dave Hansen; Wu, Fengguang; x86@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH-RESEND v4] memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for new memory
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:00:11 +0800 "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@intel.com> wrote:
> memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for hot-added memory > > Interface firmware_map_add was not called in explict, Remove it and add function > firmware_map_add_hotplug as hotplug interface of memmap. > > When we hot-add new memory, sysfs does not export memmap entry for it. we add > a call in function add_memory to function firmware_map_add_hotplug. > > Add a new function add_sysfs_fw_map_entry to create memmap entry, it can avoid > duplicated codes.
The patch causes an early exception in kmem_cache_alloc_notrace() - probably due to a null cache pointer.
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