Date:   Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:45:56 +0200
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To:     Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Cc:     akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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        linux@armlinux.org.uk, rppt@linux.ibm.com, tony@atomide.com,
        wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, yj.chiang@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] memblock, arm: fixes for freeing of the memory map
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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 03:33:29PM +0800, Mark-PK Tsai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The lts kernel also have this issue. (we use 5.4-lts kernel.)
> Currently we patch our custom kernel to select CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE for arch arm.
> But I think the formal solution should backport to lts.
> 
> Would you help to backport this patch series? (including the below commit)

There were a couple of changes between 5.4 and this set, so you'd need to
"apply" the first two patches to arm::free_unused_memmap(). Other than
that, I don't see any pitfalls here.

Feel free to CC me when you post the backported series.
 
> (024591f9a6e0 arm: ioremap: don't abuse pfn_valid() to check if pfn is in RAM)
> 
> Thanks!

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.