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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 kernel 3/7] mm: add a function to
 get the max pfn
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To: Liang Li <liang.z.li@intel.com>, mst@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

On 10/20/2016 11:24 PM, Liang Li wrote:
> Expose the function to get the max pfn, so it can be used in the
> virtio-balloon device driver. Simply include the 'linux/bootmem.h'
> is not enough, if the device driver is built to a module, directly
> refer the max_pfn lead to build failed.

I'm not sure the rest of the set is worth reviewing.  I think a lot of
it will change pretty fundamentally once you have those improved data
structures in place.