Re: [PATCH] Huge changes in mm.c

[Marco Gerards]

Vincent Pelletier <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Vincent,

> I've added a defrag function that merges consecutive free chunks. It's
> pretty fast (O(N), N=number of chunks) but I only call it when needed...
> Maybe could it be interesting to call it on each grub_free().

What do you mean with defragmenting?  I think you mean joining freed
regions, which should be done at the time it is freed.  I always
thought that was the case already.

For the other changes I will wait for the comments of Okuji, he wrote
the old code.  But it always works on the PPC and x86, it sounds like
a 64 bits problem to me...

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Marco