Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:57:14 -0800
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On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:56 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> 
> +static void __remove_section(struct zone *zone, unsigned long
> section_nr)
> +{
> +       if (!valid_section_nr(section_nr))
> +               return;
> +
> +       unregister_memory_section(__nr_to_section(section_nr));
> +       sparse_remove_one_section(zone, section_nr);
> +}

I do think passing in a mem_section* here is highly superior.  It makes
it impossible to pass a pfn in and not get a warning.

-- Dave

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