From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Yinghai <yinghai.lu@oracle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/22] lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area/lmb_free_area
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:53:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273528422.23699.109.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE84BE7.1020404@oracle.com>
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 11:09 -0700, Yinghai wrote:
> those functions have __init markers, and only can be used on boot
> stage. so do need to worry about hotplug mem.
>
> what I do is: use current lmb code for x86, and keep the affects to
> original lmb users to minimum. (should be near 0)
But that's just wrong. You are just duplicating functionality all over
the place. That doesn't make any sense.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-08 15:17 [PATCH -v14 00/22] Use lmb with x86 Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 01/22] lmb: Move lmb.c to mm/ Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 02/22] lmb: Seperate region array from lmb_region struct Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 03/22] lmb: Seperate __lmb_find_base() from __lmb_alloc_base() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 04/22] lmb: Add lmb_find_area() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 05/22] lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area/lmb_free_area Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 7:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10 18:09 ` Yinghai
2010-05-10 21:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-10 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 06/22] bootmem, x86: Add weak version of reserve_bootmem_generic Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 07/22] lmb: Add lmb_to_bootmem() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 3:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10 4:31 ` Yinghai
2010-05-12 0:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-12 0:50 ` yinghai.lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 08/22] lmb: Add get_free_all_memory_range() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 4:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10 4:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10 7:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 09/22] lmb: Add lmb_register_active_regions() and lmb_hole_size() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 10/22] lmb: Prepare to include linux/lmb.h in core file Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 11/22] lmb: Add find_memory_core_early() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 12/22] lmb: Add lmb_find_area_node() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-10 6:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 13/22] lmb: Add lmb_free_memory_size() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 14/22] lmb: Add lmb_memory_size() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 15/22] lmb: Add lmb_reserve_area_overlap_ok() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 16/22] lmb: Use lmb_debug to control debug message print out Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 17/22] lmb: Add ARCH_DISCARD_LMB to put lmb code to .init Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 18/22] lmb: Add __free/__reserve/__clear_lmb_reserved_region_array() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 6:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 19/22] x86, lmb: Add lmb_find_area_size() Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 20/22] x86: Use lmb to replace early_res Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 21/22] x86: Replace e820_/_early string with lmb_ Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-05-08 15:17 ` [PATCH 22/22] x86: Remove not used early_res code Yinghai Lu
2010-05-10 2:38 ` [PATCH -v14 00/22] Use lmb with x86 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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