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On 06/18/2020 02:26 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:27AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> This series enables vmemmap backing memory allocation from device memory
>> ranges on arm64. But before that, it enables vmemmap_populate_basepages()
>> and vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() to accommodate struct vmem_altmap based
>> alocation requests.
>>
>> This series applies on 5.8-rc1.
>>
>> Pending Question:
>>
>> altmap_alloc_block_buf() does not have any other remaining users in
>> the tree after this change. Should it be converted into a static
>> function and it's declaration be dropped from the header
>> (include/linux/mm.h). Avoided doing so because I was not sure if there
>> are any off-tree users or not.
> 
> Well, off-tree users probably have an active fork anyway so they could
> switch to vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()...

Sure, will make the function a static and remove it's declaration
from the header.

> 
> Regardless, can you please update Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst to
> keep it in sync with the code?
Sure, will do.