Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Kernel crashes on boot with SPARSEMEM + HIGHMEM enabled

[Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM, David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> wrote:
> I think this may do the same thing as my patch:
>
> http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1988/
>
> Although my patch had different motivations, and changes some other things
> around too.

I noticed that some of the other architectures have started using the
<linux/memblock.h> APIs for memory setup.  Do you think this would be
useful on MIPS, as part of a larger refactoring of bootmem_init() ?

What I liked about Michael's fix was that it is simple and
straightforward enough to meet the stable tree criteria.  Long term it
would probably be a good idea to clean up the memory init code and get
rid of the cut&paste "for" loops.