From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932249Ab1GELbx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:31:53 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:54202 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932176Ab1GELbv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 07:31:51 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Marek Szyprowski Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:31:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.37; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, Michal Nazarewicz , Kyungmin Park , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ankita Garg , Daniel Walker , Mel Gorman , Jesse Barker , Jonathan Corbet , Chunsang Jeong References: <1309851710-3828-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1309851710-3828-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <1309851710-3828-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107051331.17661.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:XBlSSYITDFfzdSr4g5KcHPHgqFb8Q2AbyWJE/jcPaOF 0PbKou84o5S5IyW3+a/AdEkzyuAzF3e1RZlzvQaBVrXOC1F3RK q3qTn1NWIkt9mxZ3wgcT2rT75lvYEXt2r+i+xOsc0GaIOWdW/r B3qpUi/s9PQUucRGr6RsaNYcbOA0OU8tibSzsNS5qauEIqYEDh CSHRABWz3ubsCHQwDlKag== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > From: Michal Nazarewicz > > This commit adds the alloc_contig_range() function which tries > to allecate given range of pages. It tries to migrate all > already allocated pages that fall in the range thus freeing them. > Once all pages in the range are freed they are removed from the > buddy system thus allocated for the caller to use. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park > [m.szyprowski: renamed some variables for easier code reading] > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski > CC: Michal Nazarewicz Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann