Messages in this thread | | | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] "big box" x86 changes, bootmem/sparsemem | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:19:14 +0200 |
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Hi Ingo,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> * Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote: > >> > mm: allow reserve_bootmem() cross nodes >> >> I find it sad that this goes in now. I wrote a clean version of >> reserve_bootmem() [1] and it was rejected with arguments that I did >> not understand [2] and that were not further explained even though I >> asked for it [3]. >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/76 >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/234 >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/250 > > oh, i had your patches applied then undid them due to this: > > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.2/0253.html > > havent seen a followup to that mail so it was 'issue pending'.
> so i very much agree that your changes are cleaner, i just wanted to > have one that has all the fixes included.
I had planned this to be another patch because there are more then one boundary check I wanted to tighten. I can merge them though if you like.
> Would you like to post a patch against current -git or should i extract > the cleaner reserve_bootmem() from your previous patch?
I just moved and have only sporadic internet access and free time slots available. Would be nice if you could do it!
> Ingo
Thanks!
Hannes
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