linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Propagate new nonpanic bootmem macros to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:07:41 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Propagate new nonpanic bootmem macros to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE

Hi Ingo,

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> writes:

> * Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry for not noticing this:
>> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
>> 
>> >>> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> 13.08.08 10:17 >>>
>> Commit 74768ed833344b "page allocator: use no-panic variant of
>> alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash()" introduced two new
>> _nopanic macros which are undefined for CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
>
> btw., i dont think the fix is complete, a quick grep shows:
>
>   arch/avr32/Kconfig:config HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE

Uhm, I think a fix for that would be removing the knob from the avr32
Kconfig.  It defaults to n and I couldn't find a place where this gets
enabled.

Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any arch-specific code associated
with it (grep -R ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE arch/avr32).

	Hannes
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