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From: "Gonzalez Monroy, Sergio" <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/9] Dynamic memzones
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 12:05:18 +0100
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On 14/10/2015 01:12, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 09:57:04 +0100
> Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Current implemetation allows reserving/creating memzones but not the opposite
>> (unreserve/free). This affects mempools and other memzone based objects.
>>
>>  From my point of view, implementing free functionality for memzones would look
>> like malloc over memsegs.
>> Thus, this approach moves malloc inside eal (which in turn removes a circular
>> dependency), where malloc heaps are composed of memsegs.
>> We keep both malloc and memzone APIs as they are, but memzones allocate its
>> memory by calling malloc_heap_alloc.
>> Some extra functionality is required in malloc to allow for boundary constrained
>> memory requests.
>> In summary, currently malloc is based on memzones, and with this approach
>> memzones are based on malloc.
>>
>> v8:
>>   - Rebase against current HEAD to factor for changes made by new Tile-Gx arch
> Following rules in kernel. You need to fix the 32 bit build and resubmit whole
> series.
>
> Thomas, this patchset should be marked "Changes requested" in patchwork.
The v10 patchset was applied in 2.1.

Could you elaborate on the issue?
I can build without errors for target i686-native-linuxapp-gcc

Sergio