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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:38:11 +0200
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] mm, cma: move output param to the end of param list

On Thu, Jun 12 2014, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> wrote:
> Conventionally, we put output param to the end of param list.
> cma_declare_contiguous() doesn't look like that, so change it.

Perhaps the function should be changed to return an error-pointer?

> Additionally, move down cma_areas reference code to the position
> where it is really needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>

>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> index 28ec226..97613ea 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ void __init kvm_cma_reserve(void)
>  
>  		align_size = max(kvm_rma_pages << PAGE_SHIFT, align_size);
>  		cma_declare_contiguous(selected_size, 0, 0, align_size,
> -			KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER - PAGE_SHIFT, &kvm_cma, false);
> +			KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER - PAGE_SHIFT, false, &kvm_cma);
>  	}
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c b/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c
> index f177f73..bfd4553 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c
> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int __init dma_contiguous_reserve_area(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t base,
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	ret = cma_declare_contiguous(size, base, limit, 0, 0, res_cma, fixed);
> +	ret = cma_declare_contiguous(size, base, limit, 0, 0, fixed, res_cma);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/cma.h b/include/linux/cma.h
> index e38efe9..e53eead 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cma.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cma.h
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ struct cma;
>  extern int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t size,
>  				phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit,
>  				phys_addr_t alignment, int order_per_bit,
> -				struct cma **res_cma, bool fixed);
> +				bool fixed, struct cma **res_cma);
>  extern struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, int count, unsigned int align);
>  extern bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, struct page *pages, int count);
>  #endif
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 01a0713..22a5b23 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ core_initcall(cma_init_reserved_areas);
>   * @limit: End address of the reserved memory (optional, 0 for any).
>   * @alignment: Alignment for the contiguous memory area, should be power of 2
>   * @order_per_bit: Order of pages represented by one bit on bitmap.
> - * @res_cma: Pointer to store the created cma region.
>   * @fixed: hint about where to place the reserved area
> + * @res_cma: Pointer to store the created cma region.
>   *
>   * This function reserves memory from early allocator. It should be
>   * called by arch specific code once the early allocator (memblock or bootmem)
> @@ -156,9 +156,9 @@ core_initcall(cma_init_reserved_areas);
>  int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t size,
>  				phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit,
>  				phys_addr_t alignment, int order_per_bit,
> -				struct cma **res_cma, bool fixed)
> +				bool fixed, struct cma **res_cma)
>  {
> -	struct cma *cma = &cma_areas[cma_area_count];
> +	struct cma *cma;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
>  	pr_debug("%s(size %lx, base %08lx, limit %08lx alignment %08lx)\n",
> @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t size,
>  	 * Each reserved area must be initialised later, when more kernel
>  	 * subsystems (like slab allocator) are available.
>  	 */
> +	cma = &cma_areas[cma_area_count];
>  	cma->base_pfn = PFN_DOWN(base);
>  	cma->count = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>  	cma->order_per_bit = order_per_bit;
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>

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