linux-kernel - Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator?

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Message-Id: <20180627101144.GC4291@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:11:44 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     mhocko@...nel.org, 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, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:09:41AM -0600, 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 have a patch for alpha nearly ready.
That leaves m68k and ia64
 
> > 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.
> 
> Rob
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.