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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/35] lmb: Add ARCH_DISCARD_LMB to put lmb code to
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 23:21 -0700, Yinghai wrote:
> > So you do not intend to use lmb after boot ? This will break the
> debugfs
> > files unless you also remove those.
> 
> no, x86 don't lmb after boot.
> 
> yes 

So you need some kind of CONFIG option to keep lmb after boot, at least
the data structures, for debugfs, or when not set, disable the debugfs
files.

Ben.