On 06/16/2010 01:41 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 23:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> 46 files changed, 1476 insertions(+), 1282 deletions(-) >> >> So what was the advantage again? It's adding more lines than it >> removes. Wasn't the point to simplify things, not make them bigger? > > I -think- the point is that once that's done, you can remove a whole lot > of gunk that was added such as the kernel/range.c caca, etc... > (basically, x86 gunk gratuituously made generic and that should really > just die instead). right. this patch include seperate bootmem.c into bootmem.c and nobootmem.c to reduce MACRO according Ingo and others. mm/bootmem.c | 165 +---------- mm/nobootmem.c | 415 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ later will 1. remove x86 own copy for find_from_low_to_high after more testing with high to low. that is about 200 lines code. 2. replace range.c with lmb. but need to expand lmb little bit like add can_resize and can_merge to be attribute of lmb_type. Thanks Yinghai Lu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
