Re: [PATCH 4.19 200/321] mm/page_alloc.c: deduplicate __memblock_free_early() and memblock_free()

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Hi!
On Tue 2019-12-03 23:34:26, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Wentao Wang <witallwang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit d31cfe7bff9109476da92c245b56083e9b48d60a ]


> @@ -1537,12 +1537,7 @@ void * __init memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid(
>   */
>  void __init __memblock_free_early(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size)
>  {
> -	phys_addr_t end = base + size - 1;
> -
> -	memblock_dbg("%s: [%pa-%pa] %pF\n",
> -		     __func__, &base, &end, (void *)_RET_IP_);
> -	kmemleak_free_part_phys(base, size);
> -	memblock_remove_range(&memblock.reserved, base, size);
> +	memblock_free(base, size);
>  }

This makes the memblock_dbg() less useful: _RET_IP_ will now be one of
__memblock_free_early(), not of the original caller.

That may be okay, but I guess it should be mentioned in changelog, and
I don't really see why it is queued for -stable.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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