linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/12] mips: Discard post-CMA-init foreach loop

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Message-ID: <MWHPR2201MB12776E9CFF2B64CA6A5071CFC1340@MWHPR2201MB1277.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 18:35:49 +0000
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>
CC:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <pburton@...ecomp.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...s.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>,
        Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] mips: Discard post-CMA-init foreach loop

Hello,

Serge Semin wrote:
> Really the loop is pointless, since it walks over memblock-reserved
> memory regions and mark them as reserved in memblock. Before
> bootmem was removed from the kernel, this loop had been
> used to map the memory reserved by CMA into the legacy bootmem
> allocator. But now the early memory allocator is memblock,
> which is used by CMA for reservation, so we don't need any mapping
> anymore.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@...s.com>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>

Applied to mips-next.

Thanks,
    Paul

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