On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 13:58 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> From: Yigal Korman <yi...@plexistor.com>
> 
> Refactored the arguments of sparse_add_one_section / sparse_remove_one_section
> to use node id instead of struct zone * - A memory section has no direct
> connection to zones, all that was needed from zone was the node id.
> 
> This is for add_persistent_memory that will want a section of pages
> allocated but without any zone associated. This is because belonging
> to a zone will give the memory to the page allocators, but
> persistent_memory belongs to a block device, and is not available for
> regular volatile usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman <yi...@plexistor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <b...@plexistor.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 4 ++--
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c            | 4 ++--
>  mm/sparse.c                    | 9 +++++----
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

For both of the MM patches in this series (this one, 5/8, and the next one,
6/8), please be sure and CC the MM folks.  I know that Dave Hansen had
feedback on an earlier version of this patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/9/742

We need to make sure that feedback is addressed.

Thanks,
- Ross


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