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From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable useless bootmem warning
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:52:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216165211.GC2389@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040216180028.06402e70.ak@suse.de>

> I've never seen a bug uncovered by this warning too. I considered to disable it 
> by passing a special array of "ok to reserve twice" regions, but on second thought 
> it is just best to remove it completely. Reserving things twice is not usually
> an error.

I have. When I was working to get sparc64 booting from alternate memory
(other than 0x0 physical), those messages helped me a lot.

Maybe make it ifdef'd by CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOTMEM (which is an option that I
know sparc and sparc64 already have).

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-16 17:00 [PATCH] Disable useless bootmem warning Andi Kleen
2004-02-16 16:52 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2004-02-16 19:13   ` Andi Kleen

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