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| From | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc |
| Date | 2015-12-21 23:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qIgOt-3Ob-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qHqdc-3TB-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <qIcrx-Yd-27@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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. Almost all uses of the bootmem interfaces are in architectures specific code these days, the only exceptions I could find at all are alloc_bootmem_pages in drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c, and alloc_bootmem in drivers/macintosh/smu.c and init/main.c. I don't know how the effort to remove bootmem is progressing, but I guess we could avoid adding new users if we move the existing implementation into the architectures that still use it, remove the interfaces not used by those architectures and rename the other ones to have a prefix identifying the architecture. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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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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