On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:41 AM, David Miller wrote: > > As I mentioned to a few ppc folks at LCA08 I plan to use > the LMB code from powerpc as a basis for NUMA support on > sparc64. > > There are two changes. > > 1) Move arch/powerpc/mm/lmb.c to lib/lmb.c, put the main > interface bits in include/linux/lmb.h, put arch-specific > bits in asm/lmb.h and add Kconfig machinery to build this > stuff on sparc64. > > 2) Fix a bug in lmb_alloc() wherein the size was not aligned > so we could easily run out of reserve blocks because > every aligned allocation would create a tiny hole, and > secondly the lmb_reserve() call there did not have it's > return value checked. > > Powerpc folks, if there are no objections please pull, thanks! > > The following changes since commit > 96b5a46e2a72dc1829370c87053e0cd558d58bc0: > Linus Torvalds (1): > WMI: initialize wmi_blocks.list even if ACPI is disabled > > are available in the git repository at: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/lmb-2.6.git master > > David S. Miller (2): > [LIB]: Make PowerPC LMB code generic so sparc64 can use it too. > [LMB]: Fix bug in __lmb_alloc_base().
Does sparc have the concept of a phys_addr_t? We are in the process of expanding the lmb support to deal with 36-bit physical addresses on 32-bit machines. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
