linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v9 00/31] use lmb with x86

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Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:22:11 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
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>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v9 00/31] use lmb with x86

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 19:42 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> the new lmb could be used to early_res in x86.
> 
> Suggested by: David, Ben, and Thomas
> 
> First three patches should go into 2.6.34
> 
> -v6: change sequence as requested by Thomas
> -v7: seperate them to more patches
> -v8: add boundary checking to make sure not free partial page.
> -v9: use lmb_debug to control print out of reserve_lmb.
>      add e820 clean up, and e820 become __initdata

Bike shedding perhaps, but can you maintain the naming convention, ie.
lmb_xxx() rather than xxx_lmb(). Neither is necessarily better, but all
the existing functions use the lmb_xxx() style.

cheers


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