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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] printk: Allocate kernel log buffer earlier
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:15:18 +0100
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> You could avoid all this ugly workaround of bootmem limitations by moving the 
> allocation to memblock_alloc() and desupporting the log_buf_len= boot parameter on 
> non-memblock architectures.

memblock_alloc() could return -ENOSYS on architectures that do not implement it - 
thus enabling such optional features without ugly #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK 
conditionals.

Thanks,

	Ingo