Re: Question about Zone Allocation 2.4.X

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:15:54PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Looks like we simply jetisioned the concept of a PPL (Physical Pages
> List) and went with a zone allocator instead.  I'm sure there was a
> good reason for it historically.  Rolling a separate zone is exactly
> what I was thinking when I reviewed the code intially.  Question,
> which files will be affected so when I put this one in, I don't end
> up breaking the VM and userspace balancing logic.  i.e.  Could you
> point me to Jens' ZONE_DMA32 code as well.

Adding new zone types is easy. Just add them to mmzone.h, avoid setting
->virtual (which does not universally exist) in free_area_init_core()
if it's not perma-mapped, stuff them in the fallback sequence in
build_zonelists(), and detect them in arch/*/mm/init.c


Bill