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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:30:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Fix and enable pmem as RAM device on arm64
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To: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On 10.07.20 05:16, Jia He wrote:
> This fixies a few issues when I tried to enable pmem as RAM device on arm64.
> 
> To use memory_add_physaddr_to_nid as a fallback nid, it would be better
> implement a general version (__weak) in mm/memory_hotplug. After that, arm64/
> sh/s390 can simply use the general version, and PowerPC/ia64/x86 will use
> arch specific version.
> 
> Tested on ThunderX2 host/qemu "-M virt" guest with a nvdimm device. The
> memblocks from the dax pmem device can be either hot-added or hot-removed
> on arm64 guest. Also passed the compilation test on x86.
> 
> Changes:
> v4: - remove "device-dax: use fallback nid when numa_node is invalid", wait
>       for Dan Williams' phys_addr_to_target_node() patch

So, this series no longer does what it promises? "Fix and enable pmem as
RAM device on arm64"

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb