linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:46:52 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] bootmem: Node-setup agnostic free_bootmem()

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:56:57 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de> writes:
>>
>>> Make free_bootmem() look up the node holding the specified address
>>> range which lets it work transparently on single-node and multi-node
>>> configurations.
>> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
>>
>> This is far better than the original change it replaces and which 
>> I also objected to in review.
>>
> 
> So...  do we think these two patches are sufficiently safe and important for
> 2.6.25?

It's only strictly needed for .26 I think for some (also slightly
dubious) changes queued in git-x86.

-Andi


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