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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/35] x86, lmb: Add x86 version of __lmb_find_area()
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:31:24 +1000
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 23:47 -0700, Yinghai wrote:

> for safe, and there is any problem with top to down allocation, we can
> ask user to check if low to high works...
> 
> not just make user to get broken kernel.

Hrm. That's a bit gross. But ok, I don't care that much as long as your
x86 variant doesn't differ in semantics with the core lmb one and I'll
let Peter and/or Thomas to scream at you if they think it's gross
(hint: the code is)

Cheers,
Ben.