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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't pass mem_map into init functions
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Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> When using CONFIG_NONLINEAR, a zone's mem_map isn't contiguous, and
> isn't allocated in the same place.  This means that nonlinear doesn't
> really have a mem_map[] to pass into free_area_init_node() or 
> memmap_init_zone() which makes any sense.  

argh, sorry.  It's this patch which I dropped due to psychedelic screen
syndrome.  The "break out zone free list initialization" patch is innocent, and
was included in rc3-mm1.