Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751796Ab0DMEyc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:54:32 -0400 Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:46005 "EHLO rcsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751499Ab0DMEy3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:54:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4BC3F82A.20400@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:50:50 -0700 From: Yinghai User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.0.4-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/39] nobootmem: use lmb.default_alloc_limit in alloc_bootmem path References: <1270793048-23796-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1270793048-23796-27-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1271132589.13059.67.camel@pasglop> In-Reply-To: <1271132589.13059.67.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090209.4BC3F8CA.0086:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1859 Lines: 57 On 04/12/2010 09:23 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 23:03 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> Generic version __lmb_find_area() is going from high to low, and for 32bit >> active_region for 32bit does include high pages >> >> need to replace the limit with lmb.default_alloc_limit, aka get_max_mapped() >> >> with this patch, x86 32bit could use generic version of __lmb_find_area() > > So you unconditionally add access to some lmb specific data structure to > generic code ? That isn't going to work very well on archs that don't > use lmb. the whole function #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_LMB u64 __init find_memory_core_early(int nid, u64 size, u64 align, u64 goal, u64 limit) { int i; /* Need to go over early_node_map to find out good range for node */ for_each_active_range_index_in_nid(i, nid) { u64 addr; u64 ei_start, ei_last; ei_last = early_node_map[i].end_pfn; ei_last <<= PAGE_SHIFT; ei_start = early_node_map[i].start_pfn; ei_start <<= PAGE_SHIFT; addr = __lmb_find_area(ei_start, ei_last, goal, limit, size, align); if (addr == -1ULL) continue; return addr; } return -1ULL; } #endif need to access early_node_map[], so leave the function here. > > Also, those things should be local to lmb_* anyways. if you insist, could move it to lmb.c and use work_with_active_regions() around it. YH -- 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/