linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove dma32_reserve

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Message-ID: <20110412091145.2bc5e6a9@jbarnes-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:11:45 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove dma32_reserve_bootmem

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:56:53 -0700
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:

> 
> That is workaround for holding dma32 buf when early bootmem could use up
> those range on system that have lots of RAM.
> 
> Now x86 is using memblock, and even nobootmem wrapper do top-down allocation.
> 
> So We could remove those not needed code now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
> 

Looks like a nice cleanup, can you re-send based on my linux-next
branch?

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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