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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:37:15 -0700
From: "Turquette, Mike" <mturquette@...com>
To: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@...dia.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad@...dia.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Clock register in early init
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Peter De Schrijver
<pdeschrijver@...dia.com> wrote:
>> We had at-least that on the older Samsung parts and they where still
>> growing. I would suggest that in a multi-kernel image situation the
>> more data that can be discarded after init-time the better.
>>
>> Also, __initdata gets gathered into one place so there's no possibility
>> of page fragmentation there. If you mean fragmentation of the memory
>> map, then allocate the size of all the clocks you know of at init time
>> in one go.
>>
>
> That would work, except that clocks are needed before kmalloc is available.
>
Is static initialization the only way to solve this problem? What
about using the bootmem allocator for early init clocks?
Regards,
Mike
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
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