From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755564AbZBKIW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752022AbZBKIWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:22:51 -0500 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:38946 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750803AbZBKIWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:22:50 -0500 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller() Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Linux Memory Management , , , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20090211044854.969CEDDDA9@ozlabs.org> References: <20090211044854.969CEDDDA9@ozlabs.org> Message-Id: <20090211171804.7021.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:47 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not __get_vm_area_caller() > > On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses given > to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order to be > able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I need > a "_caller" variant of it. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt It seems reasonable reason and this patch looks good to me :) Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the > patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ? hm. Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first. but I don't think this patch have conflict risk. Andrew, What do you think?