linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig

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Message-Id: <201107051331.17661.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:31:17 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@...aro.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig_range() added

On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> From: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
> 
> This commit adds the alloc_contig_range() function which tries
> to allecate 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 <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>
> [m.szyprowski: renamed some variables for easier code reading]
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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