Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Herring <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:09:41 -0600 | Subject | Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator? |
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi, > I am wondering why do we still keep mm/bootmem.c when most architectures > already moved to nobootmem. Is there any fundamental reason why others > cannot or this is just a matter of work?
Just because no one has done the work. I did a couple of arches recently (sh, microblaze, and h8300) mainly because I broke them with some DT changes.
> Btw. what really needs to be > done? Btw. is there any documentation telling us what needs to be done > in that regards?
No. The commits converting the arches are the only documentation. It's a bit more complicated for platforms that have NUMA support.
Rob
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