Re: Weirdness in __alloc_bootmem_node_high

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:22:10PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:43:09 +0200
> 
> > I have it almost finished - except that it does not work :-(
> > We have limitations in what area we can allocate very early,
> > and here I had to use the alloc_bootmem_low() variant.
> > I had preferred a variant that allowed me to allocate
> > bottom-up in this case.
> 
> I think you're going to have to bear down and map all of linear kernel
> mappings before you start using the bootmem code rather than
> afterwards.

Thanks - I will try to do so.
But I must admit I do not (yet) see any big difference in the
approach before/after.

I digged up an old todo regarding final link of vmlinux.
Will look at this and then re-visit memblock at sparc32.

	Sam
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