Re: why do we still need bootmem allocator?

[Mike Rapoport]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 07:58:19AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:11 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:09:41AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:08 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I am wondering why do we still keep mm/bootmem.c when most architectures
> > > > already moved to nobootmem. Is there any fundamental reason why others
> > > > cannot or this is just a matter of work?
> > >
> > > Just because no one has done the work. I did a couple of arches
> > > recently (sh, microblaze, and h8300) mainly because I broke them with
> > > some DT changes.
> >
> > I have a patch for alpha nearly ready.
> > That leaves m68k and ia64
> 
> And c6x, hexagon, mips, nios2, unicore32. Those are all the platforms
> which don't select NO_BOOTMEM.

Yeah, you are right. I've somehow excluded those that HAVE_MEMBLOCK...
 
> Rob
> 

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.