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Date:   Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:15:38 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator

On Wed 05-09-18 18:59:15, Mike Rapoport wrote:
[...]
>  325 files changed, 846 insertions(+), 2478 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 include/linux/bootmem.h
>  delete mode 100644 mm/bootmem.c
>  delete mode 100644 mm/nobootmem.c

This is really impressive! Thanks a lot for working on this. I wish we
could simplify the memblock API as well. There are just too many public
functions with subtly different semantic and barely any useful
documentation.

But even this is a great step forward!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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