Re: [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem allocator

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On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> alloc_bootmem_section() derives allocation area constraints from the
> specified sparsemem section.  This is a bit specific for a generic
> memory allocator like bootmem, though, so move it over to sparsemem.
> 
> As __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() already retries failed allocations
> with relaxed area constraints, the fallback code in sparsemem.c can be
> removed and the code becomes a bit more compact overall.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

For 03-10

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for doing this.  While at it, maybe we can clear up the naming
mess there?  I don't hate __s too much but the bootmem allocator
brings it to a whole new level.  :(

-- 
tejun

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