Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
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- To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/29] mm: remove bootmem allocator
- From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:16:34 +0300
- 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
- In-reply-to: <20180906091538.GN14951@dhcp22.suse.cz>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 11:15:38AM +0200, 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.
There are also many functions with exactly the same semantic :)
Cleaning up the memblock API would be the next step.
> But even this is a great step forward!
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
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