Re: [RFC] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM

From: Alexander Sverdlin
Date: Wed Dec 20 2017 - 03:22:19 EST


Hello Serge,

On 19/12/17 21:14, Serge Semin wrote:
> Almost a year ago I sent a patchset to the Linux MIPS community. The main target of the patchset
> was to get rid from the old bootmem allocator usage at the MIPS architecture. Additionally I had
> a problem with CMA usage on my MIPS machine due to some struct page-related issue. Moving to the
> memblock allocator fixed the problem and gave us benefits like smaller memory consumption,
> powerful memblock API to be used within the arch code.

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> @alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxx Do you still possess the Octeon MIPS64 platform to test the patchset?

yes, I'd like to test such a serious change on Octeon2. Please include me in the distribution list.

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Best regards,
Alexander Sverdlin.