Re: [PATCH 4/5] printk: use alloc_bootmem() instead of memblock_alloc().

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> that seems not right.
>>
>> for x86, setup_log_buf(1) is quite early called in setup_arch() before
>> bootmem is there.
>>
>> bootmem should be killed after memblock is supported for arch that
>> current support bootmem.
>
> Hmm.  x86 uses nobootmem.c, which implements bootmem in terms of
> memblock anyway.  It is definitely working at setup_log_buf() time (or
> else it wouldn't be able to select a sensible buffer location).


ok, you may could do that now.
only after recent changes from Tejun, that kill early_node_map().

before that, we only can use nobootmem after
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch/initmem_init()
but memblock alloc could be used just after
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c::setup_arch/memblock_x86_fill()

Now you put back bootmem calling early, will cause confusion.

>
> I suppose you're saying that it wouldn't work for a hypothetical
> architecture that *does* support bootmem and *also* supports
> setup_log_buf(1).  Will there ever be such an architecture, or will
> bootmem be retired first?

we should use adding memblock_alloc calling instead... go backward...

Thanks

Yinghai

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