linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: make reserve_bootmem can crossed the nodes

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Message-ID: <87fxus1y6q.fsf@saeurebad.de>
Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:08:29 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Yasunori Goto" <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make reserve_bootmem can crossed the nodes

Hi,

"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>  KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> writes:
>>
>>  > Background:
>>  > - reserve_bootmem is called for *reserve* memory before bootmem allocator.
>>  > - It specifies <address, size>.
>>  > - Because <addrees, size> are argments, memory hole in <address, size> is not
>>  >   problem here.
>>  >
>>  > Before change,
>>  > - reseve_bootmem() only works for Node(0)
>>  >
>>  > After change
>>  > - reserve_bootmem() works on sutiable nodes for <address, size>
>>  > - It can spread accross among prural nodes.
>>
>>  After the change it will iterate over all nodes, reserving the range
>>  `address to address+size' on each of them.
>
>  +     /* out of range */
>  +     if (addr >= bdata->node_boot_start && addr < bdata->last_success)
>  +             return;
>
> out of range will bail out...

Sorry, I did not see that.

	Hannes
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