Messages in this thread | | | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() | Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:53:38 +0200 |
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Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> writes:
> Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:56:57 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> >>> Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> writes: >>> >>>> Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address >>>> range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node >>>> configurations. >>> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> >>> >>> This is far better than the original change it replaces and which >>> I also objected to in review. >>> >> >> So... do we think these two patches are sufficiently safe and important for >> 2.6.25? > > It's only strictly needed for .26 I think for some (also slightly > dubious) changes queued in git-x86.
Does anything yet rely on this new free_bootmem() behaviour? If not, the safest thing would be to just revert the original patch in mainline and drop the second patch completely.
Hannes
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