Query about merging memblock and bootmem into one new alloc

[Sumit Gupta <sumit.g.007@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

For ARM Linux, during booting first memblock reserves memory regions then bootmem allocator create node, mem_map, page bitmap data and then hands over to buddy.

I have been thinking from some time about why we need two different allocators for this.

Can we merge both into one(memblock into bootmem) or create a new allocator which can speed up the same thing which is easy to enhance in future.

I am not sure about this and whether it's good idea or will it be fruitful.

Please suggest and share your opinion.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Thanks & Regards,
Sumit Gupta
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