From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760667Ab2DKQaW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:30:22 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:43898 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760638Ab2DKQaV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:30:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:30:16 -0700 From: Tejun Heo To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support Message-ID: <20120411163016.GC12887@google.com> References: <20120406124735.GA6920@merkur.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120406124735.GA6920@merkur.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > From ae6cdc767f973f39cb205af4b80ff13f35a1b66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Sam Ravnborg > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:37:08 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support > > x86 unconditionally uses NO_BOOTMEM so there is no use > of the HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM support as mm/bootmem.c is the > only file referencing this symbol. > > bootmem_arch_preferred_node() is the function referred > in the mm/bootmem.c code and can thuis be dropped too. > > x86 was the sole user of HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM - so there is > an opportunity to clean up a little in mm/bootmem.c too > if we do not expect other users to emerge. avr32 seems to have it too? -- tejun