linux-kernel - free_bootmem() == free_early() with CONFIG_NO

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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:48:00 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	<yinghai@...nel.org>, <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: free_bootmem() == free_early() with CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM

Why is free_bootmem() not calling free_early_partial() instead? I don't
think the (legacy?) bootmem allocator had a restriction on not allowing
partial blocks to be returned, and it certainly didn't fail on fragments of
blocks previously reserved with reserve_early() being freed.

Seems like a regression to me, but I'd like to understand first if there
is any deeper reason behind the chosen solution.

Thanks, Jan

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