On 06/13/2019 07:24 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? Sure it can be. I will make this [patch 1/3] in the next version for "arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove". Apologies for the noise here.