From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:46:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48045D6C.1010508@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080414232308.ffa4e269.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:56:57 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
>
>> Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> writes:
>>
>>> Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address
>>> range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node
>>> configurations.
>> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
>>
>> This is far better than the original change it replaces and which
>> I also objected to in review.
>>
>
> So... do we think these two patches are sufficiently safe and important for
> 2.6.25?
It's only strictly needed for .26 I think for some (also slightly
dubious) changes queued in git-x86.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-12 22:33 [patch 0/2] bootmem: Fix node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-12 22:33 ` [patch 1/2] bootmem: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core" Johannes Weiner
2008-04-13 1:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-12 22:33 ` [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() Johannes Weiner
2008-04-13 1:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-13 10:57 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-13 16:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-15 6:23 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 7:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 7:15 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 7:28 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 7:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-15 11:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-15 18:52 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 19:43 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-15 7:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-15 11:53 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-15 18:44 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 19:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2008-04-15 19:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-04-15 20:05 ` Johannes Weiner
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