linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before slab

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001041147240.7191@router.home>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:48:34 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	"\"Yinghai Lu" <yingai@...nrel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/25] x86: use early_res instead of bootmem before
 slab

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> From: "Yinghai Lu <yingai@...nrel.org>"
>
> please check the patches regarding with early_res and bootmem
>
> and at last it will make use early_res instead of bootmem with x86 64bits
>
> the first two are needed for some amd_bus.c/intel_bus.c cleaning up patches too.
> so put other x86/pci related into this series
> hope that is ok to Jesse.
>
> -v2: allocate vmemmap on one node together, and also seperate early_res

The point of this patchset is what?

Avoid use of bootmem altogether by x86 bootstrap? If so why?


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