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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/4] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> You could avoid all this ugly workaround of bootmem limitations by moving the
> allocation to memblock_alloc() and desupporting the log_buf_len= boot parameter on
> non-memblock architectures.

memblock_alloc() could return -ENOSYS on architectures that do not implement it -
thus enabling such optional features without ugly #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK
conditionals.

Thanks,

Ingo


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