From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Santosh Shilimkar Subject: Re: [PATCH] WIP: HACK: LPAE, BOOTMEM and NO_BOOTMEM Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:06:02 -0400 Message-ID: <51FC1F3A.8090201@ti.com> References: <20130629152959.GB31339@mtj.dyndns.org> <20130629172123.GA3353@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130629175743.GA382@mtj.dyndns.org> <20130629195549.GE3353@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51D18DBA.6090608@ti.com> <51F1A7AA.8080700@ti.com> <20130725223658.GJ26107@mtj.dyndns.org> <51F1B17F.30902@ti.com> <20130726030812.GB30195@mtj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130726030812.GB30195@mtj.dyndns.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Nicolas Pitre , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Russell King - ARM Linux , Sam Ravnborg , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , "H. Peter Anvin" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , Yinghai Lu , "David S. Miller" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org Tejun, On Thursday 25 July 2013 11:08 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:15:11PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> Sorry if I wasn't clear before, but I need help to at least have new >> memblock API support since I am not familiar with memblock code. >> I could help in adaptation to the new API for ARM arch and >> core kernel code. >> >> Let me know your thoughts. > > Unfortunately, I'm currently a bit too occupied to work on it myself. > Any volunteers? > Looking at the situation, how about proceeding with patch updating the bootmem API signatures to use phys_addr_t which can unblock me to get my machine working. Introduction of new API, conversions of core kernel code and then arches moving away from bootmem is going to take significant time anyways. I will continue my effort to get ARM port moved to no-bootmem and get that merged. Let me know how to make progress here. Appreciate your help on the subject. Regards, Santosh From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:55146 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751297Ab3HBVGt (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:06:49 -0400 Message-ID: <51FC1F3A.8090201@ti.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:06:02 -0400 From: Santosh Shilimkar MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] WIP: HACK: LPAE, BOOTMEM and NO_BOOTMEM References: <20130629152959.GB31339@mtj.dyndns.org> <20130629172123.GA3353@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130629175743.GA382@mtj.dyndns.org> <20130629195549.GE3353@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51D18DBA.6090608@ti.com> <51F1A7AA.8080700@ti.com> <20130725223658.GJ26107@mtj.dyndns.org> <51F1B17F.30902@ti.com> <20130726030812.GB30195@mtj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130726030812.GB30195@mtj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Yinghai Lu , Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Nicolas Pitre , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , "David S. Miller" , "sparclinux@vger.kernel.org" , Sam Ravnborg , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20130802210602.nTWg4sVwiw0WRwIys_e2uht0QzmpGUKTElg-urWYF2w@z> Tejun, On Thursday 25 July 2013 11:08 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 07:15:11PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: >> Sorry if I wasn't clear before, but I need help to at least have new >> memblock API support since I am not familiar with memblock code. >> I could help in adaptation to the new API for ARM arch and >> core kernel code. >> >> Let me know your thoughts. > > Unfortunately, I'm currently a bit too occupied to work on it myself. > Any volunteers? > Looking at the situation, how about proceeding with patch updating the bootmem API signatures to use phys_addr_t which can unblock me to get my machine working. Introduction of new API, conversions of core kernel code and then arches moving away from bootmem is going to take significant time anyways. I will continue my effort to get ARM port moved to no-bootmem and get that merged. Let me know how to make progress here. Appreciate your help on the subject. Regards, Santosh