Re: [RFC] MIPS memblock: Remove bootmem code and switch to NO_BOOTMEM

From: Serge Semin
Date: Tue Dec 26 2017 - 13:06:18 EST


On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 08:18:09AM +0100, Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Serge,
>
> On 19.12.2017 21:14, Serge Semin wrote:
> >Hello folks,
> >
> >Almost a year ago I sent a patchset to the Linux MIPS community. The main target of the patchset
> >was to get rid from the old bootmem allocator usage at the MIPS architecture. Additionally I had
> >a problem with CMA usage on my MIPS machine due to some struct page-related issue. Moving to the
> >memblock allocator fixed the problem and gave us benefits like smaller memory consumption,
> >powerful memblock API to be used within the arch code.
> >
> >@marcin.nowakowski@xxxxxxxxxxx Could you confirm if you are still interested in the patchset and
> >ready to update the Loongson64 platform code so one would be compatible with it?
>
> I am currently working on different projects, but I will try to do my best
> to help with this (but just might require more time than I would otherwise
> need).
> Given the scale of the task and the amount of testing required, I expect
> that it will take a while to get a complete set of patches reviewed and
> tested which should hopefully be enough to fix support for all platforms
> affected.
>

Hello Marcin,
Thanks for the willing to help. I'll CC the patchset to you when it's ready.

-Sergey

> Marcin