linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv7 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

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Message-Id: <20101215085047.251778be.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:50:47 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
Cc:	Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@...ibm.com>,
	BooJin Kim <boojin.kim@...sung.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Johan MOSSBERG <johan.xx.mossberg@...ricsson.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:23:15 +0100
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com> wrote:

> > Hmm, it seems __cm_alloc() and __cm_migrate() has no special codes for CMA.
> > I'd like reuse this for my own contig page allocator.
> > So, could you make these function be more generic (name) ?
> > as
> > 	__alloc_range(start, size, mirate_type);
> >
> > Then, what I have to do is only to add "search range" functions.
> 
> Sure thing.  I'll post it tomorrow or Friday. How about
> alloc_contig_range() maybe?
> 

That sounds great. Thank you.

-Kame

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