From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] CMA: generalize CMA reserved area management code Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:55:39 +0530 Message-ID: <87r42seyvg.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1402543307-29800-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Minchan Kim , Russell King - ARM Linux , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Paolo Bonzini , Gleb Natapov , Alexander Graf , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Joonsoo Kim To: Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , Marek Szyprowski , Michal Nazarewicz Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1402543307-29800-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Joonsoo Kim writes: > Currently, there are two users on CMA functionality, one is the DMA > subsystem and the other is the kvm on powerpc. They have their own code > to manage CMA reserved area even if they looks really similar. > From my guess, it is caused by some needs on bitmap management. Kvm side > wants to maintain bitmap not for 1 page, but for more size. Eventually it > use bitmap where one bit represents 64 pages. > > When I implement CMA related patches, I should change those two places > to apply my change and it seem to be painful to me. I want to change > this situation and reduce future code management overhead through > this patch. > > This change could also help developer who want to use CMA in their > new feature development, since they can use CMA easily without > copying & pasting this reserved area management code. > > v2: > Although this patchset looks very different with v1, the end result, > that is, mm/cma.c is same with v1's one. So I carry Ack to patch 6-7. > > Patch 1-5 prepare some features to cover ppc kvm's requirements. > Patch 6-7 generalize CMA reserved area management code and change users > to use it. > Patch 8-10 clean-up minor things. I wanted to test the ppc changes and found that the patch series doesn't apply against v3.15 . Do you have a kernel tree which I can clone to test this series ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org