On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 10:09, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The following patch removes the individual free area initialization from
> free_area_init_core(), and puts it in a new function
> zone_init_free_lists().  It also creates pages_to_bitmap_size(), which
> is then used in zone_init_free_lists() as well as several times in my
> free area bitmap resizing patch.  
> 
> First of all, I think it looks nicer this way, but it's also necessary
> to have this if you want to initialize a zone after system boot, like if
> a NUMA node was hot-added.  In any case, it should be functionally
> equivalent to the old code.
> 
> Compiles and boots on x86.  I've been running with this for a few weeks,
> and haven't seen any problems with it yet.

OK, I suck.  Here's one that applies with -p1 properly and doesn't add
whitespace on the line above the zone_init_free_lists() call.

 page_alloc.c |   84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- Dave