linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:39:02 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-mm-cc@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Nitin Gupta wrote:
> On 08/24/2009 11:03 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > What's the purpose of passing PFNs around? There's quite a lot of PFN
> > to struct page conversion going on because of it. Wouldn't it make
> > more sense to return (and pass) a pointer to struct page instead?
> 
> PFNs are 32-bit on all archs

Are you sure?  If it happens to be so for all machines built today,
I think it can easily change tomorrow.  We consistently use unsigned long
for pfn (there, now I've said that, I bet you'll find somewhere we don't!)

x86_64 says MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 46 and ia64 says MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 50 and
mm/sparse.c says
unsigned long max_sparsemem_pfn = 1UL << (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS-PAGE_SHIFT);

Hugh
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