On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:36:46AM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:

I think I put in the locks in the initial version of
the file becase the idea was that 
show_free_areas_node() could be invoked from any cpu
in a multinode system (via the sysrq keys or other
intr sources), and the spin lock would provide 
sanity in the print out. 
For nonnuma discontig machines, isn't the spin lock
providing protection in the pgdat list chain walking
in _alloc_pages()?
Kanoj

Since I just posted a patch removing the entire function, exactly
where is this called from? A grep of current 2.5 shows that it's
never called from anywhere.


Cheers,
Bill
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