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Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:48:23 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/16] x86: we can use full bootmem after have init_memory_mapping


So remove outdated comments

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -476,15 +476,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	 */
 	vmi_init();
 #endif
-	/*
-	 * NOTE: before this point _nobody_ is allowed to allocate
-	 * any memory using the bootmem allocator.  Although the
-	 * allocator is now initialised only the first 8Mb of the kernel
-	 * virtual address space has been mapped.  All allocations before
-	 * paging_init() has completed must use the alloc_bootmem_low_pages()
-	 * variant (which allocates DMA'able memory) and care must be taken
-	 * not to exceed the 8Mb limit.
-	 */
 
 	paging_init();
 

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