Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove dma32_reserve_bootmem

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:03:26 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > That is workaround for holding dma32 buf when early bootmem could use up
> > > those range on system that have lots of RAM.
> > > 
> > > Now x86 is using memblock, and even nobootmem wrapper do top-down allocation.
> > > 
> > > So We could remove those not needed code now.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >  arch/x86/include/asm/pci.h |    2 -
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c  |   64 ---------------------------------------------
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/setup.c    |    1
> > >  3 files changed, 67 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Cc:-ing Jesse - i suspect this should be handled by the PCI tree.
> 
> Please re-send, sounds good in theory but I'd like to see the patch.

It should be in your lkml folder, the first mail in this thread has the patch.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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