linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/23] mm/memblock: drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE

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Message-ID: <20131203225815.GW8277@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:58:15 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/23] mm/memblock: drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE_BYTES
 as a default alignment

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 09:27:22PM -0500, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> From: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
> 
> drop WARN and use SMP_CACHE_BYTES as a default alignment in
> memblock_alloc_base_nid() as recommended by Tejun Heo in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/13/117.

Can you please add description on why this change is being made?  This
is in preparation of common alloc interface, right?  The patch
description is kinda out-of-blue.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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