linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

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Message-Id: <200905251646.06788.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Mon, 25 May 2009 16:46:06 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler fixes

On Mon, 25 May 2009 12:23:53 pm Ingo Molnar wrote:
> setup_arch() is one huge function that sets up all architecture
> details at once - but if we split a separate setup_arch_mem() out of
> it, and left the rest in setup_arch (and moved it further down), we
> could remove much of bootmem (especially the ugly uses).

cmdline parsing needs to be available even before mem setup.  I waded
into this earlier and broke almost every arch, but if there's renewed 
enthusiasm I could dig out those patches.

(Search for "arch_get_boot_cmdline()").

Cheers,
Rusty.
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