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bootmem: Add free_bootmem_late()
authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:46:17 +0000 (19:46 +0900)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:31:43 +0000 (12:31 +0100)
commit9f993ac3f708b661207ed7de521f245586217a68
treef9565a41efe0cc2dfde6d84c8a6bdf310799ffea
parent9d5ce73a64be2be8112147a3e0b551ad9cd1247b
bootmem: Add free_bootmem_late()

Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem
allocator has been released and the unreserved pages given to
the page allocator.

This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we
later discover it was not needed.

( This new API will be used by the swiotlb code to recover
  a significant amount of RAM (64MB). )

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: muli@il.ibm.com
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257849980-22640-7-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/bootmem.h
mm/bootmem.c