Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:54:10 +0900
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
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 <mina86@mina86.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Shariq Hasnain <shariq.hasnain@linaro.org>,
        Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>,
        Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv21 06/16] mm: page_alloc: introduce alloc_contig_range()
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On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:32:21 +0100
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote:

> From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
> 
> This commit adds the alloc_contig_range() function which tries
> to allocate 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 <mina86@mina86.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
> Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>

Hmm, I may have to refactoring memory hot unplug code using this :)

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>


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