From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:16:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:58522 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23994630AbeIFNQrqhaYZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:16:47 +0200 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098413.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w86DEQX6034393 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:16:45 -0400 Received: from e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.97]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2mb40qjvuh-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:16:45 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:16:43 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (9.149.109.197) by e06smtp01.uk.ibm.com (192.168.101.131) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:16:38 +0100 Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.62]) by b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id w86DGbHI43581622 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:16:37 GMT Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1789BAE051; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:15:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B5DAE058; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:15:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from rapoport-lnx (unknown [9.148.8.92]) by d06av26.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS; Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:15:57 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:16:34 +0300 From: Mike Rapoport To: Michal Hocko Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , Michael Ellerman , Paul Burton , Thomas Gleixner , Tony Luck , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator References: <1536163184-26356-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180906091538.GN14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180906091538.GN14951@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18090613-4275-0000-0000-000002B63C2D X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18090613-4276-0000-0000-000037BF5B68 Message-Id: <20180906131634.GJ27492@rapoport-lnx> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-09-06_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=542 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1807170000 definitions=main-1809060135 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 66064 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:15:38AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Wed 05-09-18 18:59:15, Mike Rapoport wrote: > [...] > > 325 files changed, 846 insertions(+), 2478 deletions(-) > > delete mode 100644 include/linux/bootmem.h > > delete mode 100644 mm/bootmem.c > > delete mode 100644 mm/nobootmem.c > > This is really impressive! Thanks a lot for working on this. I wish we > could simplify the memblock API as well. There are just too many public > functions with subtly different semantic and barely any useful > documentation. There are also many functions with exactly the same semantic :) Cleaning up the memblock API would be the next step. > But even this is a great step forward! > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs > -- Sincerely yours, Mike.