linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:31 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, clameter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>, "Yasunori Goto" <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list

[PATCH] mm: make free_bootmem to loop bdata_list

        [PATCH] mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core

make the free_bootmem_core could handle out of range case. we could use
bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure.

so next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use
free_bootmem directly.

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

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