Re: [patch 1/2] bootmem: Revert "mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_core"

["Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:
> This reverts commit 5a982cbc7b3fe6cf72266f319286f29963c71b9e.
>
>  The intention behind this patch was to make the free_bootmem()
>  interface more robust with regards to the specified range and to let
>  it operate on multiple node setups as well.
>
>  However, it made free_bootmem_core()
>
>   1. handle bogus node/memory-range combination input by just
>      returning early without informing the callsite or screaming BUG()
>      as it did before
>   2. round slightly out of node-range values to the node boundaries
>      instead of treating them as the invalid parameters they are
>
>  This was partially done to abuse free_bootmem_core() for node
>  iteration in free_bootmem (just feeding it every node on the box and
>  let it figure out what it wants to do with it) instead of looking up
>  the proper node before the call to free_bootmem_core().

it seems intel having one box the [0, 4G), [8, 12G] on node 0, and
[4G, 8G) and [12G, 16) on node 1.

YH