Re: [patch v2 3/6] mm/memory_hotplug: Disable memory hotremove for 32bit

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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:48:27AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Mon 27-05-13 07:51:38, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 08:12:09PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> >On Sun 26-05-13 17:06:17, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> >> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:00:54AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> >> >On Sun 26-05-13 13:58:38, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> >> >> As KOSAKI Motohiro mentioned, memory hotplug don't support 32bit since 
>> >> >> it was born, 
>> >> >
>> >> >Why? any reference? This reasoning is really weak.
>> >> >
>> >> 
>> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=136953099010171&w=2
>> >
>> >I have seen the email but that email just states that the feature is
>> >broken. Maybe it is obvious to you _what_ is actually broken but it
>> >doesn't need to be others especially those who would be reading such
>> >changelog later. So if you consider this configuration broken then be
>> >specific what is broken.
>> >
>> 
>> Sorry for the not enough information. KOSAKI explain more here:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=136958040921274&w=2 
>
>There are still just general claims that _something_ is not highmem
>aware.
>
>Anyway, as it seems that there are some attempts to revive this code
>then this discussion is moot. But, just for the future, make sure you
>are really specific when you claim that something is broken. Somebody
>said it was broken is _not_ a reasoning that would fly.
>

Got it, thanks Michal. ;-)

>-- 
>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs

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