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SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > 1. free_bootmem(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_size) in setup_arch of x86_64
> > need that
> > 2. another patch in x86.git need that.
>
> Ok, to avoid confusion: we are talking about free_bootmem() iterating
> over nodes and looking up an area WITHIN a node or free_bootmem()
> freeing an area ACROSS nodes?
>
> The first is what my patch does _only_.

Yes, your patch for free_bootmem only can free blocks in the same node.

but the free_bootmem(ramdisk_image,...) in setup_arch could cross
node... , and some other via reserve_early...

for example two nodes, every node have 2G, and in case use
memmap=NN$SS to execlude some memory on node1. the ramdisk could sit
cross the boundary.

YH


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