linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.31-rc1: memory initialization warnings on sparc

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Message-Id: <20090615.031237.16489152.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a.beregalov@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc1: memory initialization warnings on sparc


I know about them, I saw these messages too.

kmalloc() initialization got moved earlier so large swaths of sparc
early initialization need to move from bootmem to kmalloc or similar.

It's just a harmless warning as the bootmem code calls kmalloc()
if that's available already.
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