Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce bootmem_state -v2

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 14:51:14 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Impact: cleanup
>>
>> extend after_bootmem and after_init_bootmem to bootmem_state
>> and will have BEFORE_BOOTMEM, DURING_BOOTMEM, AFTER_BOOTMEM
>>
>> v2: style changes according to ingo
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
>> arch/x86/mm/init.c | 13 +++++++------
>> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
>> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>> include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++++++++
>> 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
>> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h
>> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
>> @@ -1067,6 +1067,15 @@ extern void __init mmap_init(void);
>> extern void show_mem(void);
>> extern void si_meminfo(struct sysinfo * val);
>> extern void si_meminfo_node(struct sysinfo *val, int nid);
>> +
>> +enum bootmem_state {
>> + BEFORE_BOOTMEM,
>> + DURING_BOOTMEM,
>> + AFTER_BOOTMEM
>> +};
>> +
>> +extern enum bootmem_state bootmem_state;
>> +
>> extern int after_bootmem;
>
> Btw., the after_bootmem variable itself should either move to
> x86 (and arch/sh), or should be defined in mm/bootmem.c.
>
> Right now we have this weird mm.h construct that is not actually
> useful to generic code.

with this patch, only sh is using after_bootmem. could
1. make sh to use bootmem_state
2. then remove after_bootmem

YH
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