Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator

[Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/6/18 5:15 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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!

This is a great simplification of boot process. Thank you Mike!

I agree, with Michal in the future, once nobootmem kernel stabalizes
after this effort, we should start simplifying memblock allocator API:
it won't be as big effort as this one, as I think, that can be done in
incremental phases, but it will help to make early boot much more stable
and uniform across arches.

Thank you,
Pavel