Re: [PATCH] mm: make reserve_bootmem can crossed the nodes

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Fri Mar 14 2008 - 23:11:36 EST


Hi,

"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Background:
>> > - reserve_bootmem is called for *reserve* memory before bootmem allocator.
>> > - It specifies <address, size>.
>> > - Because <addrees, size> are argments, memory hole in <address, size> is not
>> > problem here.
>> >
>> > Before change,
>> > - reseve_bootmem() only works for Node(0)
>> >
>> > After change
>> > - reserve_bootmem() works on sutiable nodes for <address, size>
>> > - It can spread accross among prural nodes.
>>
>> After the change it will iterate over all nodes, reserving the range
>> `address to address+size' on each of them.
>
> + /* out of range */
> + if (addr >= bdata->node_boot_start && addr < bdata->last_success)
> + return;
>
> out of range will bail out...

Sorry, I did not see that.

Hannes
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