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SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()
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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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