From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:30:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411163016.GC12887@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120406124735.GA6920@merkur.ravnborg.org>
On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> From ae6cdc767f973f39cb205af4b80ff13f35a1b66e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:37:08 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support
>
> x86 unconditionally uses NO_BOOTMEM so there is no use
> of the HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM support as mm/bootmem.c is the
> only file referencing this symbol.
>
> bootmem_arch_preferred_node() is the function referred
> in the mm/bootmem.c code and can thuis be dropped too.
>
> x86 was the sole user of HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM - so there is
> an opportunity to clean up a little in mm/bootmem.c too
> if we do not expect other users to emerge.
avr32 seems to have it too?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-06 12:47 [PATCH] x86: drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-11 16:30 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-04-11 17:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-04-11 17:11 ` Tejun Heo
2012-04-11 20:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-14 18:26 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86: Drop " tip-bot for Sam Ravnborg
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