On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:45:36AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote: > I just don't want to any new variables to store the hotpluggable regions. > But without a new shared variable, it seems difficult to achieve the goal > you said below.
Why can't it be done with the .flags field that was added anyway? > So how about this. > 1. Introduce a new global list used to store hotpluggable regions. > 2. On acpi side, find and fulfill the list. > 3. On memblock side, make the default allocation function stay away from > these regions. I was thinking more along the line of 1. Mark hotpluggable regions with a flag in memblock. 2. On ACPI side, find and mark hotpluggable regions. 3. Make memblock avoid giving out hotpluggable regions for normal allocations. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
