Re: [PATCH] mm: setup pageblock_order before it's used by sparse

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jul 18 2012 - 03:02:11 EST


On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:31 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> Any update about this topic?
> Thanks!
> Gerry

I should have said "long week-end" :-) I'm just back, will look into it
now.

Cheers,
Ben.

>
> On 2012-7-6 9:24, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 18:00 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> cma, dma_continugous_reserve is referring pageblock_order very early
> >> too.
> >> just after init_memory_mapping() for x86's setup_arch.
> >>
> >> so set pageblock_order early looks like my -v2 patch is right way.
> >>
> >> current question: need to powerpc guys to check who to set that early.
> >
> > I missed the beginning of that discussion, I'll try to dig a bit,
> > might take me til next week though as I'm about to be off for
> > the week-end.
> >

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