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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 00/14] bootmem rewrite v4

OK.
I reviewed this patch set, and my ia64 box can boot up with it. :-)

Thanks.

Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>


> Hi,
>
> This is a complete overhaul of the bootmem allocator while preserving
> most of its original functionality.
>
> free_bootmem and reserve_bootmem become a bit stricter than they are
> right now, callsites have to make sure that the PFN range is
> contiguous but it might go across node boundaries.
>
> alloc_bootmem satisfying the allocation goal is more likely as the
> routines will try to allocate on the node holding the goal first
> before falling back as opposed to the original behaviour that
> satisfies the goal only if it is on the first node.
>
> All in all, I think the code has become simpler and cleaner. All
> public interfaces have been documented, too.
>
> version 4: based on -mmotm from 08-06-05
> o fixed fallback logic in alloc_bootmem_core (take the fallback even
> in cases where sidx is zero) to make Yasunori's machine boot again
> o fixed bogus range checks in ___alloc_bootmem_nopanic
> o removed bogus `fallback'-offset calculation in alloc_bootmem_core
> o renamed last_offset to last_end_off
> o renamed last_success to hint_idx
> o start searching after the end of the previous allocation, not at
> its beginning
> o improved more identifier names for offsets, pfns, indices and
> addresses
> o adjusted debugging output to output hex numbers consistently
>
> version 3:
> o fixed kerneldoc as noted by Chris Malley
> o fixed incorrect bdata->last_success treatment as noted by
> Yasunori Goto
>
> version 2:
> o broken up patches into logical chunks
>
> ---
>
> arch/alpha/mm/numa.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm/plat-omap/fb.c | 4 +-
> arch/avr32/mm/init.c | 3 +-
> arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c | 19 +-
> arch/m32r/mm/discontig.c | 3 +-
> arch/m32r/mm/init.c | 4 +-
> arch/mn10300/mm/init.c | 6 +-
> arch/sh/mm/init.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/bootmem.h | 87 +++---
> mm/bootmem.c | 934 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 10 files changed, 570 insertions(+), 494 deletions(-)
>

--
Yasunori Goto




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