Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 2010 09:41:52 -0700 | From | Yinghai Lu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/35] x86, lmb: Add x86 version of __lmb_find_area() |
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On 05/14/2010 01:31 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 23:47 -0700, Yinghai wrote: > > >> for safe, and there is any problem with top to down allocation, we can >> ask user to check if low to high works... >> >> not just make user to get broken kernel. >> > Hrm. That's a bit gross. But ok, I don't care that much as long as your > x86 variant doesn't differ in semantics with the core lmb one and I'll > let Peter and/or Thomas to scream at you if they think it's gross > (hint: the code is) > > > those bits are line by line translation from current early_res code, and have been used for a while.
so should be good as a fallback.
YH
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