Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752673AbZKITZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:25:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751667AbZKITZL (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:25:11 -0500 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:51936 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751479AbZKITZK (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:25:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:46 +0900 To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, vegard.nossum@gmail.com, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hannes@cmpxchg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] bootmem: add free_bootmem_late From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: <20091108100029.GD2845@elte.hu> References: <20091028074832.GC19402@elte.hu> <20091106104931W.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20091108100029.GD2845@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20091110042204M.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:51 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1846 Lines: 47 On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:00:29 +0100 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:48:32 +0100 > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > * FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > > > > > From: Chris Wright > > > > > > > > Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem allocator has > > > > been released and the unreserved pages given to the page allocator. > > > > This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we later > > > > discover it was not needed. > > > > > > > > Reviewed-by: FUJITA Tomonori > > > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright > > > > --- > > > > include/linux/bootmem.h | 1 + > > > > mm/bootmem.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > > > > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > > > > > Hm, we are now further complicating the bootmem model. > > > > Yeah, agreed. But reorganizing the allocator during boot is not easy. > > I'll investigate it later on but VT-d people want to fix this IOMMU > > issue now. Can we accept this for now? > > Since the patchset weighs heavily towards the iommu and x86 side i can > do that in tip:core/iommu tree, if there's an Acked-by for this > bootmem.c patch from at least one of these gents: ok > Johannes Weiner > Pekka Enberg > Andrew Morton > Tejun Heo Can you give ACKs? Thanks, -- 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/