Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:55:11 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] sparse_irq aka dyn_irq |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:40:33 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > >> @@ -987,6 +988,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void) > > >> > > >> set_highmem_pages_init(); > > >> > > >> + after_bootmem = 1; > > > > > > this hack can go away once we have a proper percpu_alloc() that can be > > > used early enough. > > > > where is that fancy patch? current percpu_alloc(), will keep big > > pointer in array..., instead of put that pointer in percpu_area > > > > 64bit has that after_bootmem already. > > or at least introduce a "bootmem agnostic" allocator instead of > open-coding the after_bootmem flag. > > Something like: > > early_kzalloc() > > ? > > Andrew, any preferences?
My mind reading ain't what it was, and this after_bootmem flag is write-only in this patch.
So what's all this about?
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