On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:26:17AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between > regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available > or not. vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to allocate > vmemmap mappings. Lets also enable it to handle altmap based device memory > allocation along with existing regular memory allocations. This will help > in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many places. To summarize > there are two different methods to call vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(). > > vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, NULL) /* Allocate from system RAM */ > vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, altmap) /* Allocate from altmap */ > > This converts altmap_alloc_block_buf() into a static function, drops it's
s/it's/its/ > entry from the header and updates Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst. > > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> > Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Tested-by: Jia He <[email protected]> > Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <[email protected]> With the fallback argument dropped, the patch looks fine to me. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
