Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 15 2008 - 03:04:18 EST


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:56:57 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address
> > > range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node
> > > configurations.
> >
> > Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This is far better than the original change it replaces and which
> > I also objected to in review.
> >
>
> So... do we think these two patches are sufficiently safe and important for
> 2.6.25?

the patch is wrong

YH
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/