Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:50:04 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/10] bootmem: add free_bootmem_late | From | FUJITA Tomonori <> |
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:48:32 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > > > From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> > > > > Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem allocator has > > been released and the unreserved pages given to the page allocator. > > This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we later > > discover it was not needed. > > > > Reviewed-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> > > --- > > include/linux/bootmem.h | 1 + > > mm/bootmem.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > Hm, we are now further complicating the bootmem model.
Yeah, agreed. But reorganizing the allocator during boot is not easy. I'll investigate it later on but VT-d people want to fix this IOMMU issue now. Can we accept this for now?
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