Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761874AbYCGRH2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:07:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756237AbYCGRHP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:07:15 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:28071 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755516AbYCGRHO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:07:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:05:17 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [6/13] Core maskable allocator Message-Id: <20080307090517.b6b27987.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20080307090716.9D3E91B419C@basil.firstfloor.org> References: <200803071007.493903088@firstfloor.org> <20080307090716.9D3E91B419C@basil.firstfloor.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1500 Lines: 46 On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:07:16 +0100 (CET) Andi Kleen wrote: > > This is the core code of the maskable allocator. Introduction > appended. > Index: linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -2116,6 +2116,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. > norandmaps Don't use address space randomization > Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space > > + maskzone=size[MG] Set size of maskable DMA zone to size. > + force Always allocate from the mask zone (for testing) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ?? > + > ______________________________________________________________________ > > TODO: > Index: linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl > =================================================================== > --- linux.orig/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl > +++ linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl > @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c > !Emm/memory.c > !Emm/vmalloc.c > !Imm/page_alloc.c > +!Emm/mask-alloc.c > !Emm/mempool.c > !Emm/dmapool.c > !Emm/page-writeback.c Thanks for the kernel-doc annotations. --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/