Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
From: Mike Rapoport <hidden>
Date: 2018-09-06 13:16:49
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From: Mike Rapoport <hidden>
Date: 2018-09-06 13:16:49
Also in:
linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:15:38AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Wed 05-09-18 18:59:15, Mike Rapoport wrote: [...]quoted
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.cThis 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.
There are also many functions with exactly the same semantic :) Cleaning up the memblock API would be the next step.
But even this is a great step forward! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
-- Sincerely yours, Mike.