linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 9 May 2012 10:35:28 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] (no)bootmem bits for 3.5

Hello,

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:57:48PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > It was used on x86-32 numa to try all bootmem allocations from node 0
> > first (see only remaining definition of bootmem_arch_preferred_node),
> > which AFAICS nobootmem no longer respects.
> > 
> > Shouldn't this be fixed instead?
> I do not know. Tejun / Yinghai?

Indeed, preferring node 0 for bootmem allocation on x86_32 got lost
across the nobootmem changes.  I followed the git history and
preferring NODE_DATA(0) goes back to the initial git branch creation
time (2.6.12) and I couldn't find any explanation, and nobody
complained about the changed behavior.  hpa, do you know why the code
to prefer node 0 for bootmem allocations was added in the first place?
Maybe we can just remove it?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/