From: mhocko@kernel.org (Michal Hocko)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment"
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 19:21:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180315182110.GR23100@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu83VtB+ff6H88UMF9kiz5923U8tXhQoERdErYE4pQg94Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu 15-03-18 15:48:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 15 March 2018 at 15:34, Daniel Vacek <neelx@redhat.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Hence I was asking what is the abstract meaning
> > of it. As I see two *way_different* implementations so I am not sure
> > how I should understand that.
> >
>
> My interpretation is that it has a struct page associated with it, but
> it seems the semantics of pfn_valid() aren't well defined.
Well, pfn_valid says that a given pfn is backed by a real memory and it
has a valid struct page backing it.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-15 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-14 19:29 [PATCH v2] Revert "mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment" Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-14 22:25 ` Jan Glauber
2018-03-14 22:53 ` Shanker Donthineni
2018-03-18 12:02 ` Neil Armstrong
2018-03-14 23:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-15 2:23 ` Daniel Vacek
2018-03-15 7:36 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-15 7:44 ` Daniel Vacek
2018-03-15 7:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-15 15:12 ` Daniel Vacek
2018-03-15 15:17 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-15 15:34 ` Daniel Vacek
2018-03-15 15:48 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-03-15 18:21 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-03-15 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-03-15 18:35 ` Michal Hocko
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