Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/19] kill free_all_bootmem() and clean up VALID_PAGE()

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On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:36:20PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Commit 600cc5b7f6 "mm: Kill NO_BOOTMEM version free_all_bootmem_node()"
> has kill free_all_bootmem_node() for NO_BOOTMEM.
> 
> Currently the usage pattern for free_all_bootmem_node() is like:
> for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat)
> 	free_all_bootmem_node(pgdat);
> 
> It's equivalent to free_all_bootmem(), so this patchset goes one
> step further to kill free_all_bootmem_node() for BOOTMEM too.
> 
> This patchset also tries to clean up code and comments related to
> VALID_PAGE() because it has been removed from kernel long time ago.
> 
> Patch 1-11:
> 	Kill free_all_bootmem_node()
> Patch 12-16:
> 	Clean up code and comments related to VALID_PAGE()
> Patch 17:
> 	Fix a minor build warning for m68k
> Patch 18:
> 	merge Alpha's mem_init() for UMA and NUMA.
> Patch 19:
> 	call register_page_bootmem_info_node() from mm core

How does this not break bisection?  Will a kernel still boot with
patches 1-11 applied but not patch 19?  As far as I can see such a
kernel would have no memory available to it after mem_init() time
and would therefore crash early in boot.

Paul.

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