Re: [PATCH -v2 6/9] bootmem: add free_bootmem_late

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 02:48:03 EST



* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:46:17 +0900
> FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem allocator has
> > been released and the unreserved pages given to the page allocator.
> > This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we later
> > discover it was not needed.
>
> OK, but the new function has no callers and curious people will be
> wondering what happened to patches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9!

They were posted to lkml alongside patch 6 - see this thread on lkml:

[PATCH v2 0/9] x86: handle HW IOMMU initialization failure gracefully

Ingo
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