Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:38:42 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/10] bootmem: add free_bootmem_late | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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Hi Tejun,
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote: > ISTR an attempt to initialize the kmalloc allocator much earlier > during boot such that it can completely replace the bootmem allocator, > which would nicely remove all the complications although it may > require the kmalloc allocator to go through more complex boot > strapping steps. I didn't follow how that went. Did it prove to be > unworkable?
We're doing it before scheduler init now but I haven't put any effort into moving it earlier than that yet. I don't see any fundamental reason we can't do that but the practical problem is that we're going to affect architecture specific boot code which is really hard to test.
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