Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:10:58 -0700 | | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list |
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > 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? after mm-fix-boundary-checking-in-free_bootmem_core.patch, or you can fold this into that. > > Do you believe ths new patch is needed in 2.6.25 and if so, why?
could solve some free_bootmem in extreme case like no ram on node 0.
YH
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