From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>,
Sumit Gupta <sumit.g.007@gmail.com>,
inux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 10:47:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151222094747.GA25114@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201512212301.02148.arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:01:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 21 December 2015, Laura Abbott wrote:
> > ARM no longer uses bootmem, just memblock (see 84f452b1e8fc73ac0e31254c66e3e2260ce5263d
> > ARM: mm: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM). Any bootmem calls
> > just go to mm/nobootmem.c which is a wrapper around memblock for compatibility.
>
> It seems the same is true on arc, arm64, powerpc, s390, sparc, tile and x86,
> and we'd ideally move all others the same way.
Small detail - sparc64 uses memblock, whereas sparc32 uses bootmem.
I know because I once tried to move sparc32 to use memblock, but
ran out of time.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-22 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-19 13:57 Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc Sumit Gupta
2015-12-21 17:24 ` Laura Abbott
2015-12-21 22:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-22 9:47 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
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2015-12-19 13:40 Sumit Gupta
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