From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Mike Kravetz" <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
"Dave Hansen" <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@sgi.com>,
"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@shadowen.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:19:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020605100019i26e1c649m18c9b314b63dce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509210722.GD3168@w-mikek2.ibm.com>
On 5/10/06, Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I did not include support for 'large' allocations as suggested by
> Dave, or corresponding free_memory_early() routines. The only
> immediate need is for NUMA/node aware allocation. Others can be
> added as the needs arise.
Sorry if this was already discussed, but you're not supposed to free
the memory allocated by alloc_memory_early() ever? If so, please add a
kerneldoc stating that.
Pekka
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-10 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 5:35 Add SYSTEM_BOOTING_KMALLOC_AVAIL system_state Mike Kravetz
2006-05-09 5:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-09 6:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-05-09 17:20 ` Dave Hansen
2006-05-09 17:48 ` Mike Kravetz
2006-05-09 21:07 ` [PATCH] alloc_memory_early() routines Mike Kravetz
2006-05-10 7:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-05-10 7:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-05-10 7:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-05-10 8:29 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-10 16:16 ` Mike Kravetz
2006-05-10 17:42 ` Pekka J Enberg
2006-05-10 7:19 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
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