Re: [Lse-tech] Re: [rfc][patch] Memory Binding API v0.3 2.5.41

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 20:57:25 EST


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:29:49PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> The only place I see that used in generic code is
>> calculate_zone_totalpages, free_area_init_core, free_area_init_node,
>> none of which seem to do that. But cscope might be borked again, I
>> guess. Must be done in each arch if at all ... which arch did you
>> think did it?

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:40:23PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Not sure, ISTR something about this going on but I don't see any extant
> examples. At any rate, it should be easy to do it by hand, just make
> sure there are struct pages tracking the holes in mem_map and free the
> space in mem_map that would track the holes.

And buddy bitmaps and ->node_valid_addr too. Which stands a good chance
of explaining why it broke, if it ever worked.

Bill
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