Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:03:32 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator? |
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On Mon 25-06-18 10:09:41, Rob Herring wrote: > 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.
I see
> > 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.
I do not see why should be NUMA a problem but I will have a look at your commits to see what you have done.
Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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