Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: vmalloc: export __vmalloc_node_range

Christian Gmeiner
2024-07-19T06:41:17Z

>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:35:02 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 02:31:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > The hardware is weird, but we should try to support it in some fashion.
> >
> > Why? It's been around since 2005, and Linux has done perfectly well
> > without support for it.
>
> Oh. I was assuming it was some new thing. This does weaken the case
> a lot.

This wonderful interface is used in recent products from them too.
Adding support for it
in an upstream-able way could be still a benefit, as these products
are used in different
industrial environments running on Linux.

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Christian Gmeiner, MSc