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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:04:03 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"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()

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> 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?

the patch is wrong

YH
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