From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E6AF6B0047 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:48:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:48:26 +1100 From: Stephen Rothwell Subject: Re: please don't apply : bootmem: avoid DMA32 zone by default Message-Id: <20100307124826.6c70a779.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20100307010327.GD15725@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <49b004811003041321g2567bac8yb73235be32a27e7c@mail.gmail.com> <20100305032106.GA12065@cmpxchg.org> <49b004811003042117n720f356h7e10997a1a783475@mail.gmail.com> <4B915074.4020704@kernel.org> <4B916BD6.8010701@kernel.org> <4B91EBC6.6080509@kernel.org> <20100306162234.e2cc84fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100307010327.GD15725@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Sun__7_Mar_2010_12_48_26_+1100_OZJqAAANxhscbimK" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Andrew Morton , Yinghai Lu , Greg Thelen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --Signature=_Sun__7_Mar_2010_12_48_26_+1100_OZJqAAANxhscbimK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Paul, On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 12:03:27 +1100 Paul Mackerras wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:22:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Earlier, Johannes wrote > >=20 > > : Humm, now that is a bit disappointing. Because it means we will never > > : get rid of bootmem as long as it works for the other architectures.=20 > > : And your changeset just added ~900 lines of code, some of it being a > > : rather ugly compatibility layer in bootmem that I hoped could go away > > : again sooner than later. >=20 > Whoa! Who's proposing to get rid of bootmem, and why? I assume that is the point of the "early_res" work already in Linus' tree starting from commit 27811d8cabe56e0c3622251b049086f49face4ff ("x86: Move range related operation to one file"). --=20 Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ --Signature=_Sun__7_Mar_2010_12_48_26_+1100_OZJqAAANxhscbimK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuTBeoACgkQjjKRsyhoI8xhpACcDObt+kcXskN18effWjz/qp07 NnkAoJp9fYyg3fxv9ru6/yJg5649Y6UK =2PoU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__7_Mar_2010_12_48_26_+1100_OZJqAAANxhscbimK-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org