From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753768Ab0CJWRl (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:41 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43343 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751169Ab0CJWRi (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20100310.141757.95833226.davem@davemloft.net> To: yinghai@kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] sparc64: use early_res and nobootmem From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4B9818CE.7090809@kernel.org> References: <4B981049.3040607@kernel.org> <20100310.133646.144946890.davem@davemloft.net> <4B9818CE.7090809@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yinghai Lu Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:22 -0800 > On 03/10/2010 01:36 PM, David Miller wrote: >> And LMB cannot fill this void with some minor modifications? > > early_res array could be increased automatically... > > could be something like: > keep lmb.memory part, and use early_res for reserved parts... LMB has a reserved region. I still have yet to see any fundamental reason why LMB cannot, all by itself, be used to solve this problem too.