From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760120AbYDOHrW (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:47:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757861AbYDOHrA (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:47:00 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:50552 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755969AbYDOHq6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:46:58 -0400 Message-ID: <48045D6C.1010508@firstfloor.org> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:46:52 +0200 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Yinghai Lu , Yasunori Goto , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem() References: <20080412223319.372887160@symbol.fehenstaub.lan> <20080412225850.704752615@symbol.fehenstaub.lan> <87lk3hwv52.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080414232308.ffa4e269.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080414232308.ffa4e269.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:56:57 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Johannes Weiner writes: >> >>> Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address >>> range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node >>> configurations. >> Acked-by: Andi Kleen >> >> This is far better than the original change it replaces and which >> I also objected to in review. >> > > So... do we think these two patches are sufficiently safe and important for > 2.6.25? It's only strictly needed for .26 I think for some (also slightly dubious) changes queued in git-x86. -Andi