linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] memblock: Improve memblock to support allocation from lower address.

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Date:	Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:21:47 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] memblock: Improve memblock to support allocation
 from lower address.

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:07:13AM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> Yes, I am following your advice in principle but kind of confused by
> something you said above. Where should the set_memblock_alloc_above_kernel
> be used? IMO, the function is like:
> 
> find_in_range_node()
> {
>      if (ok) {
>            /* bottom-up */
>            ret = __memblock_find_in_range(max(start, _end_of_kernel), end...);
>            if (!ret)
>                  return ret;
>      }
> 
>      /* top-down retry */
>      return __memblock_find_in_range_rev(start, end...)
> }
> 
> For bottom-up allocation, we always start from max(start, _end_of_kernel).

Oh, I was talking about naming of the memblock_set_bottom_up()
function.  We aren't really doing pure bottom up allocations, so I
think it probably would be clearer if the name clearly denotes that
we're doing above-kernel allocation.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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