Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
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- To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
- From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 11:15:38 +0200
- Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed 05-09-18 18:59:15, Mike Rapoport wrote:
[...]
> 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.c
This 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.
But even this is a great step forward!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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