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From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/16] x86: we can use full bootmem after have init_memory_mapping
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:48:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806251748.23711.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806251744.02246.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>


So remove outdated comments

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -476,15 +476,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	 */
 	vmi_init();
 #endif
-	/*
-	 * NOTE: before this point _nobody_ is allowed to allocate
-	 * any memory using the bootmem allocator.  Although the
-	 * allocator is now initialised only the first 8Mb of the kernel
-	 * virtual address space has been mapped.  All allocations before
-	 * paging_init() has completed must use the alloc_bootmem_low_pages()
-	 * variant (which allocates DMA'able memory) and care must be taken
-	 * not to exceed the 8Mb limit.
-	 */
 
 	paging_init();
 


      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200806251744.02246.yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-06-26  0:48 ` [PATCH 01/16] x86: rename setup.c to setup_percpu.c Yinghai Lu
2008-06-26  0:48 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]

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