Re: [patch 10/10] mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from thebootmem allocator

[David Miller]

From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:19:41 -0700

> On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> alloc_bootmem_section() derives allocation area constraints from the
>> specified sparsemem section.  This is a bit specific for a generic
>> memory allocator like bootmem, though, so move it over to sparsemem.
>> 
>> As __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() already retries failed allocations
>> with relaxed area constraints, the fallback code in sparsemem.c can be
>> removed and the code becomes a bit more compact overall.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> For 03-10
> 
>  Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks for doing this.  While at it, maybe we can clear up the naming
> mess there?  I don't hate __s too much but the bootmem allocator
> brings it to a whole new level.  :(

+1  And you can add my Ack to this series too, thanks Johannes:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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