From: m.szyprowski@samsung.com (Marek Szyprowski)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv16 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:57:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00af01cc87e3$1b05e980$5111bc80$%szyprowski@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111010155642.38df59af.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hello,
On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 12:57 AM Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 18:27:06 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 06 October 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > > Once again I decided to post an updated version of the Contiguous Memory
> > > Allocator patches.
> > >
> > > This version provides mainly a bugfix for a very rare issue that might
> > > have changed migration type of the CMA page blocks resulting in dropping
> > > CMA features from the affected page block and causing memory allocation
> > > to fail. Also the issue reported by Dave Hansen has been fixed.
> > >
> > > This version also introduces basic support for x86 architecture, what
> > > allows wide testing on KVM/QEMU emulators and all common x86 boxes. I
> > > hope this will result in wider testing, comments and easier merging to
> > > mainline.
> >
> > Hi Marek,
> >
> > I think we need to finally get this into linux-next now, to get some
> > broader testing. Having the x86 patch definitely helps here becauses
> > it potentially exposes the code to many more testers.
> >
> > IMHO it would be good to merge the entire series into 3.2, since
> > the ARM portion fixes an important bug (double mapping of memory
> > ranges with conflicting attributes) that we've lived with for far
> > too long, but it really depends on how everyone sees the risk
> > for regressions here. If something breaks in unfixable ways before
> > the 3.2 release, we can always revert the patches and have another
> > try later.
> >
> > It's also not clear how we should merge it. Ideally the first bunch
> > would go through linux-mm, and the architecture specific patches
> > through the respective architecture trees, but there is an obvious
> > inderdependency between these sets.
> >
> > Russell, Andrew, are you both comfortable with putting the entire
> > set into linux-mm to solve this? Do you see this as 3.2 or rather
> > as 3.3 material?
> >
>
> Russell's going to hate me, but...
>
> I do know that he had substantial objections to at least earlier
> versions of this, and he is a guy who knows of what he speaks.
I've did my best to fix these issues. I'm still waiting for comments...
Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 13:54 [PATCHv16 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:23 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:05 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-16 8:01 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-16 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-16 9:39 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-17 12:21 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-17 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:21 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-18 17:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-18 17:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-18 18:00 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-21 10:06 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 1:00 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-24 4:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-01 15:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-01 18:06 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-01 18:47 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:38 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 19:32 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-27 9:10 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 6/9] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-16 10:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-18 13:43 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 19:39 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-04 10:41 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 7/7] ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 14:18 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-15 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 7/9] X86: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 4:33 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Subash Patel
2011-10-14 9:14 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-07 16:27 ` [PATCHv16 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-10 6:58 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10 12:02 ` Clark, Rob
2011-10-10 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-11 6:57 ` Marek Szyprowski [this message]
2011-10-11 13:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-14 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-15 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-10 12:07 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 7:17 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 7:30 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 10:50 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 11:25 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 13:05 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-12 11:08 ` [PATCH] fixup: mm: alloc_contig_range: increase min_free_kbytes during allocation Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-12 13:01 ` Maxime Coquelin
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