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Message-ID: <20180625180332.GR28965@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:03:32 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, hannes@...xchg.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator?
On Mon 25-06-18 10:09:41, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am wondering why do we still keep mm/bootmem.c when most architectures
> > already moved to nobootmem. Is there any fundamental reason why others
> > cannot or this is just a matter of work?
>
> Just because no one has done the work. I did a couple of arches
> recently (sh, microblaze, and h8300) mainly because I broke them with
> some DT changes.
I see
> > Btw. what really needs to be
> > done? Btw. is there any documentation telling us what needs to be done
> > in that regards?
>
> No. The commits converting the arches are the only documentation. It's
> a bit more complicated for platforms that have NUMA support.
I do not see why should be NUMA a problem but I will have a look at your
commits to see what you have done.
Thanks!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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