Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964834AbWEJHT7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 03:19:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964836AbWEJHT7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 03:19:59 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.239]:30856 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964834AbWEJHT6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 May 2006 03:19:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=M4Rkkrs8k+wwBqZ5rxb12YhoD/1Vyk3fPzxm9bEpCAmczCYhyjUjw8V7/MFEhCIgr1CW05hZZQDUlocbJgy4OJjVZX2rGIsyoiaQ5ZjweM8OtUj+focA4f4pT7J5c/8MjVbk6iMTyPYIW2VRMOVxwt19h++V5y9wqjBMY7pif3I= Message-ID: <84144f020605100019i26e1c649m18c9b314b63dce@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:19:57 +0300 From: "Pekka Enberg" To: "Mike Kravetz" Subject: Re: [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Dave Hansen" , "Christoph Lameter" , "Andy Whitcroft" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060509210722.GD3168@w-mikek2.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060509053512.GA20073@monkey.ibm.com> <20060508224952.0b43d0fd.akpm@osdl.org> <20060509210722.GD3168@w-mikek2.ibm.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ea41ee72ed780505 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 16 On 5/10/06, Mike Kravetz wrote: > I did not include support for 'large' allocations as suggested by > Dave, or corresponding free_memory_early() routines. The only > immediate need is for NUMA/node aware allocation. Others can be > added as the needs arise. Sorry if this was already discussed, but you're not supposed to free the memory allocated by alloc_memory_early() ever? If so, please add a kerneldoc stating that. Pekka - 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/