Re: [PATCH] don't pass mem_map into init functions

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 16:19:08 EST


Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When using CONFIG_NONLINEAR, a zone's mem_map isn't contiguous, and
> isn't allocated in the same place. This means that nonlinear doesn't
> really have a mem_map[] to pass into free_area_init_node() or
> memmap_init_zone() which makes any sense.

argh, sorry. It's this patch which I dropped due to psychedelic screen
syndrome. The "break out zone free list initialization" patch is innocent, and
was included in rc3-mm1.
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