From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
"Yinghai Lu <yingai@kernrel.org>"@hera.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:13:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4259FB.1000804@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001041147240.7191@router.home>
On 01/04/2010 09:48 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@kernrel.org>"
>>
>> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>>
>> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>>
>> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
>> so put other x86/pci related into this series
>> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>>
>> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res
>
> The point of this patchset is what?
>
> Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?
>
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0910.3/01432.html
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-22 23:40 [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 01/25] x86: fix size for ex trampoline with 32bit Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:42 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: Fix " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 02/25] x86/pci: intel ioh bus num reg accessing fix Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 21:42 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/pci: Intel " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 03/25] bootmem: move out map assigning out of loop Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 04/25] x86/pci: don't check mmconf again if it is from MSR with amd faml0h Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 05/25] x86: move range related operation to one file Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 06/25] x86: check range in update range Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 07/25] x86/pci: use resource_size_t in update_res Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 08/25] x86/pci: amd one chain system to use pci read out res Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 09/25] x86/pci: use u64 instead of size_t in amd_bus.c Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 10/25] x86/pci: add cap_resource Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 11/25] x86/pci: enable pci root res read out for 32bit too Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 12/25] x86: call early_res_to_bootmem one time Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 13/25] x86: introduce max_early_res and early_res_count Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 14/25] x86: dynamic increase early_res array size Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 15/25] x86: print bootmem free before pci_iommu_alloc and free_all_bootmem Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 16/25] x86: make early_node_mem get mem > 4g if possible Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 17/25] x86: only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 18/25] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 19/25] sparsemem: put usemap for one node together Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 20/25] sparsemem: put mem map " Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:40 ` [PATCH 21/25] x86: change range end to start+size Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:41 ` [PATCH 22/25] x86: move bios page reserve early to head32/64.c Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:41 ` [PATCH 23/25] x86: seperate early_res related code from e820.c Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:41 ` [PATCH 24/25] x86: add find_early_area_size Yinghai Lu
2009-12-22 23:41 ` [PATCH 25/25] x86: move back find_e820_area to e820.c Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 17:48 ` [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab Christoph Lameter
2010-01-04 21:13 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2010-01-04 21:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-01-04 21:23 ` Yinghai Lu
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2009-12-22 23:44 Yinghai Lu
2010-01-04 17:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-22 23:46 Yinghai Lu
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