From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:19:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120507181941.GF19417@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336390672-14421-11-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> alloc_bootmem_section() derives allocation area constraints from the
> specified sparsemem section. This is a bit specific for a generic
> memory allocator like bootmem, though, so move it over to sparsemem.
>
> As __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() already retries failed allocations
> with relaxed area constraints, the fallback code in sparsemem.c can be
> removed and the code becomes a bit more compact overall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
For 03-10
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks for doing this. While at it, maybe we can clear up the naming
mess there? I don't hate __s too much but the bootmem allocator
brings it to a whole new level. :(
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tejun
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-07 11:37 [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5 Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 01/10] mm: bootmem: fix checking the bitmap when finally freeing bootmem Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:07 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 02/10] mm: bootmem: remove redundant offset check " Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:08 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 03/10] mm: bootmem: rename alloc_bootmem_core to alloc_bootmem_bdata Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 04/10] mm: bootmem: split out goal-to-node mapping from goal dropping Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 05/10] mm: bootmem: allocate in order node+goal, goal, node, anywhere Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 06/10] mm: bootmem: unify allocation policy of (non-)panicking node allocations Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 07/10] mm: nobootmem: panic on node-specific allocation failure Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 19:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 08/10] mm: nobootmem: unify allocation policy of (non-)panicking node allocations Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 19:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 09/10] mm: bootmem: pass pgdat instead of pgdat->bdata down the stack Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 11:37 ` [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 18:19 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-05-07 18:21 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-15 11:47 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-07 20:41 ` [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5 Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 22:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-05-08 17:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-09 17:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-09 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-05-09 18:08 ` Tejun Heo
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