linux-kernel - Re: [patch 046/181] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQWVEDHKeRN3+t39Hch8wpNdjsv15yTyVVLGRdK=yw2n4g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:20:16 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tj@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 046/181] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the
 bootmem allocator

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> No use in reverting it, as the bootmem version was already broken
> before, when the limit was removed in f5bf18f "bootmem/sparsemem:
> remove limit constraint in alloc_bootmem_section".
>
> I'm okay with exporting and using ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in
> 3.5.

Good. Assume that is Acked-by you.

Andrew,

Can you push attached -v2 patch to Linus?

Thanks

Yinghai

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