Re: [PATCH V12 0/2] arm64/mm: Enable memory hot remove

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 01/21/2020 08:48 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:15:33PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> This series enables memory hot remove functionality on arm64 platform. This
>> is based on Linux 5.5-rc6 and particularly deals with a problem caused when
>> boot memory is attempted to be removed.

Hello Will,

> 
> Unfortunately, this results in a conflict with mainline since the arm64
> -next branches are based on -rc3 and there was a fix merged after that
> (feee6b298916 ("mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory"))
> which changes the type of __remove_pages().

Right, that fix went in last couple of weeks.

> 
> So I think I'll leave this for 5.7.

Just wondering if there is any chance this can still make it to 5.6
or its already too late ?

> 
> Will
> 

- Anshuman