Re: [PATCH v6 02/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce common definitions for the size and mask of a section

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Fri May 03 2019 - 09:01:02 EST


On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 08:57:09AM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:35 AM Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/05/2019 01:41, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:53 AM Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Up-level the local section size and mask from kernel/memremap.c to
> > >>> global definitions. These will be used by the new sub-section hotplug
> > >>> support.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> > >>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
> > >>> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> Should be dropped from this series as it has been replaced by a very
> > >> similar patch in the mainline:
> > >>
> > >> 7c697d7fb5cb14ef60e2b687333ba3efb74f73da
> > >> mm/memremap: Rename and consolidate SECTION_SIZE
> > >
> > > I saw that patch fly by and acked it, but I have not seen it picked up
> > > anywhere. I grabbed latest -linus and -next, but don't see that
> > > commit.
> > >
> > > $ git show 7c697d7fb5cb14ef60e2b687333ba3efb74f73da
> > > fatal: bad object 7c697d7fb5cb14ef60e2b687333ba3efb74f73da
> >
> > Yeah, I don't recognise that ID either, nor have I had any notifications
> > that Andrew's picked up anything of mine yet :/
>
> Sorry for the confusion. I thought I checked in a master branch, but
> turns out I checked in a branch where I applied arm hotremove patches
> and Robin's patch as well. These two patches are essentially the same,
> so which one goes first the other should be dropped.
>
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hey Pavel,

just a friendly note :-) :

you are reviewing v6, I think you might want to review v7 [1] instead ;-)?

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10926035/


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