Please make NO_BOOTMEM default to n, at least for amd64, where I've found
that it leads to all kinds of strange, undebuggable boot hangs and errors
(with relatively current Fedora development userland).
Also, the help text for the item makes little sense to a non-expert in
this area:
" ---help---
Use early_res directly instead of bootmem before slab is ready.
- allocator (buddy) [generic]
- early allocator (bootmem) [generic]
- very early allocator (reserve_early*()) [x86]
- very very early allocator (early brk model) [x86]
So reduce one layer between early allocator to final allocator."
I had no idea what all this meant, so trusted the default=y and then spent
several hours wondering why everything was breaking, and would likley not
have figured it out in linear time without a suggestion from Dave Airlie.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
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