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SubjectRe: Early boot panic on machine with lots of memory
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello, Yinghai.
>
> Sorry about the delay.  I'm in bug storm somehow. :(
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:14:43PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>> > I wish we had a single call - say, memblock_die(), or whatever - so
>> > that there's a clear indication that memblock usage is done, but yeah
>> > maybe another day.  Will review the patch itself.  BTW, can't you post
>> > patches inline anymore?  Attaching is better than corrupt but is still
>> > a bit annoying for review.
>>
>> please check the three patches:
>
> Heh, reviewing is cumbersome this way but here are my comments.
>
> * "[PATCH] memblock: free allocated memblock_reserved_regions later"
>  looks okay to me.

Good, this one should go to 3.5, right?


>
> * "[PATCH] memblock: Free allocated memblock.memory.regions" makes me
>  wonder whether it would be better to have something like the
>  following instead.
>
>  typedef void memblock_free_region_fn_t(unsigned long start, unsigned size);
>
>  void memblock_free_regions(memblock_free_region_fn_t free_fn)
>  {
>        /* call free_fn() on reserved and memory regions arrays */
>        /* clear both structures so that any further usage triggers warning */
>  }

ok, will check it.

>
> * "memblock: Add checking about illegal using memblock".
>  Hmm... wouldn't it be better to be less explicit?  I think it's
>  adding too much opencoded identical checks.  Maybe implement a
>  common check & warning function?

yes.

Thanks

Yinghai
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