From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e23smtp06.au.ibm.com (e23smtp06.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFCAB1A048B for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:25:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp06.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:25:50 +1000 Received: from d23relay04.au.ibm.com (d23relay04.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.120]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036752BB004A for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:25:47 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (d23av04.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.139]) by d23relay04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s5E79c0838207564 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:09:38 +1000 Received: from d23av04.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av04.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s5E7PjD3017520 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:25:46 +1000 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , Marek Szyprowski , Michal Nazarewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] CMA: generalize CMA reserved area management code In-Reply-To: <1402543307-29800-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> References: <1402543307-29800-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:55:39 +0530 Message-ID: <87r42seyvg.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Gleb Natapov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Alexander Graf , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim , Paul Mackerras , Paolo Bonzini , Joonsoo Kim , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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 ?