From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove dma32_reserve_bootmem
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:03:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110324080326.GA30812@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8AD6E0.10307@kernel.org>
* Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> That is workaround for holding dma32 buf when early bootmem could use up
> those range on system that have lots of RAM.
>
> Now x86 is using memblock, and even nobootmem wrapper do top-down allocation.
>
> So We could remove those not needed code now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h | 2 -
> arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 64 ---------------------------------------------
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1
> 3 files changed, 67 deletions(-)
Cc:-ing Jesse - i suspect this should be handled by the PCI tree.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-24 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-24 5:30 [PATCH] x86: Remove dma32_reserve_bootmem Yinghai Lu
2011-03-24 8:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-03-28 16:19 ` Jesse Barnes
2011-03-28 16:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-28 16:23 ` Jesse Barnes
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2011-03-28 17:56 Yinghai Lu
2011-04-12 16:11 ` Jesse Barnes
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