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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.c
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:59:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B98326A.1020905@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100310234620.GA3897@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On 03/10/2010 03:46 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 01:24:26PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
>> move it to kernel/fw_memmap.c from arch/x86/kernel/e820.c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |  130 -----
>>  arch/x86/kernel/e820.c      | 1142 --------------------------------------------
>>  include/linux/bootmem.h     |    2 
>>  include/linux/fw_memmap.h   |  114 ++++
>>  kernel/Makefile             |    2 
>>  kernel/fw_memmap.c          | 1134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Yuck.  So you think we should use > 1100 lines of fw_memmap.c code
> instead of the 541 lines of lib/lmb.c?  Why exactly would that be
> better?
> 

even worse

you should count
early_res + fw_memmap 

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-11  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 21:24 [PATCH -v2 0/6] early_res: fw_memmap.c Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: add get_centaur_ram_top Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86: make e820 to be static Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: use wake_system_ram_range instead of e820_any_mapped in agp path Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: make e820 to be initdata Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] early_res: seperate common memmap func from e820.c to fw_memmap.c Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:50   ` Russell King
2010-03-10 21:50     ` Russell King
2010-03-10 21:55     ` David Miller
2010-03-10 22:05     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 22:05       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 23:46   ` Paul Mackerras
2010-03-10 23:59     ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-03-10 21:24 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:30   ` David Miller
2010-03-10 21:33     ` David Miller
2010-03-10 21:34       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 21:36         ` David Miller
2010-03-10 22:10           ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 22:17             ` David Miller
2010-03-10 22:31               ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 22:36                 ` David Miller
2010-03-10 23:01                   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 23:47                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-11  0:02                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-11  3:59                       ` Paul Mundt
2010-03-10 22:04   ` David Miller
2010-03-10 22:20     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 22:49       ` David Miller
2010-03-10 23:05         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-03-10 23:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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