Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 1/4] memory: allocation in low memory

Janosch Frank
2020-11-05T14:15:54Z

On 11/5/20 1:16 PM, Pierre Morel wrote:
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> On 9/29/20 9:19 AM, Janosch Frank wrote:
>> On 9/28/20 5:31 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:23:34 +0200
>>> Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some architectures need allocations to be done under a
>>>> specific address limit to allow DMA from I/O.
>>>>
>>>> We propose here a very simple page allocator to get
>>>> pages allocated under this specific limit.
>>>>
>>>> The DMA page allocator will only use part of the available memory
>>>> under the DMA address limit to let room for the standard allocator.
>>>>
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> ...snip...
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>> Before we start any other discussion on this patch we should clear up if
>> this is still necessary after Claudio's alloc revamp.
>>
>> I think he added options to request special types of memory.
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> Isn't it possible to go on with this patch series.
> It can be adapted later to the changes that will be introduced by
> Claudio when it is final.
>
>

Pierre, that's outside of my jurisdiction, you're adding code to the
common code library.

I've set Paolo CC, let's see if he finds this thread :)