The explanations here do not make sense.
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 9:19 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> There are 2 issues here:
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> a. The sysfs memory and node's layouts are broken due to these multiple
> links
>
> b. The link errors in link_mem_sections() should not lead to a system
> panic.
>
> To address a. register_mem_sect_under_node should not rely on the system
> state to detect whether the link operation is triggered by a hot plug
> operation or not. This is addressed by the patches 1 and 2 of this series.
>
> The patch 3 is addressing the point b.
>
> This patch (of 2):
>
> The memmap_context enum is used to detect whether a memory operation is due
> to a hot-add operation or happening at boot time.
>
> Make it general to the hotplug operation and rename it as meminit_context.
>
> There is no functional change introduced by this patch
So far so good.
But there is no "patch 3" that addresses point (b) in this series.
I see it on lore, but it's not part of what actually got sent to me,
so the commit message for patch 1 now makes no sense any more.
Linus
