Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] mm/memblock: Add support for excluded memory areas

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:42:53 +0100 Philipp Hachtmann <phacht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:36:20 -0800
> schrieb Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > Patch is big.  I'll toss this in for some testing but it does look too
> > large and late for 3.14.  How will this affect your s390 development?
> 
> It is needed for s390 bootmem -> memblock transition. The s390 dump
> mechanisms cannot be switched to memblock (from using something s390
> specific called memory_chunk) without the nomap list.
> I'm also working on another enhancement on s390 that will rely on a
> clean transition to memblock.
> 
> I have written and tested the stuff on top of our local development
> tree. And then realised that it does not fit the linux-next tree. So I
> converted it to fit linux-next and posted it. Have to maintain two
> versions now. 

So at 3.14-rc1 everything will come good - get the review issues sorted
out, add the patch to your tree (and hence linux-next).

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