Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: make expand_downwards symmetrical to
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From: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
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On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 13:33 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-08/msg00154.html
> 
> http://mytechkorner.blogspot.com/2010/12/sparsemem.html
> 
> Dave Hansen, Mel: Can you provide us with some help? (Its Easter and so
> the europeans may be off for awhile) 

Yup, for sure.  It's also interesting how much code ppc64 removed when
they did this:

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2005-November/006646.html

Please cc me on patches.  Or, if nobody else was planning on doing it, I
can take a stab at doing SPARSEMEM on one of the arches.  I won't be
able to _run_ it outside of qemu, but it might be quicker than someone
starting from scratch.

Was it really just m68k and parisc that need immediate attention?

-- Dave

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