Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc

From	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc
Date	2015-12-22 10:50 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:01:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2015, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > ARM no longer uses bootmem, just memblock (see 84f452b1e8fc73ac0e31254c66e3e2260ce5263d
> > ARM: mm: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM). Any bootmem calls
> > just go to mm/nobootmem.c which is a wrapper around memblock for compatibility.
> 
> It seems the same is true on arc, arm64, powerpc, s390, sparc, tile and x86,
> and we'd ideally move all others the same way.

Small detail - sparc64 uses memblock, whereas sparc32 uses bootmem.

I know because I once tried to move sparc32 to use memblock, but
ran out of time.

	Sam
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Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Sumit Gupta <sumit.g.007@gmail.com> - 2015-12-19 15:00 +0100
  Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2015-12-21 18:30 +0100
    Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-12-21 23:10 +0100
      Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> - 2015-12-22 10:50 +0100

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