From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ak@suse.de, y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com,
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:05:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080313120553.06fee622.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440803131153m325c9e04h43bfd25b667a5c04@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:31 -0700
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> wrote:
> [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list
>
> [PATCH] mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core
>
> make the free_bootmem_core could handle out of range case. we could use
> bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure.
>
> so next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use
> free_bootmem directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
>
What is the relationship (if any) between this and
mm-fix-boundary-checking-in-free_bootmem_core.patch?
Do you believe ths new patch is needed in 2.6.25 and if so, why?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 18:53 [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list Yinghai Lu
2008-03-13 19:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-03-13 19:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-14 1:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-14 1:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-14 2:04 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-03-14 2:07 ` Yinghai Lu
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