From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756848AbXKNBdz (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:33:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753194AbXKNBdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:33:47 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60426 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753159AbXKNBdr (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:33:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:33:46 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071113.173346.100252448.davem@davemloft.net> To: clameter@sgi.com Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [patch 01/28] cpu alloc: The allocator From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <473A1DEA.7000307@cosmosbay.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Christoph Lameter Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:00:45 -0800 (PST) > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > Once you add in mm/vmalloc.c all needed helpers, no need to use BSS Megablob > > anymore ? > > Well I think all of this can be avoided by simply copying the existing > vmemmap helper functions and providing a virtual address for sparc64. I intend to do that in the end, but you miss my point. Requiring this is unreasonable. And nobody is going to do the virt stuff for platforms like sparc32. And I do mean nobody.