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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:10:03 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: 2.6.14-mm2
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Dave Hansen wrote:
> Hmmm.  I _think_ you're just trying to do some things at runtime that I
> didn't intend.  In the patch I pointed to in the last mail, look at what
> I did in hot_add_zone_init().  It does some of what
> free_area_init_core() does, but only the most minimal bits.  Basically:
> 
>        zone_wait_table_init(zone, size_pages);
>        init_currently_empty_zone(zone, phys_start_pfn, size_pages);
>        zone_pcp_init(zone);
> 
> Your way may also be valid, but I broke out init_currently_empty_zone()
> for a reason, and I think this was it.  I don't think we want to be
> calling free_area_init_core() itself at runtime.
> 

I understand what is missing..
"add new zone" function is not in -mm kernel.
So, I can't add new pages into Highmem which is empty at boot time.
Could you post your "add new zone" patch to -mm ?

-- Kame

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