linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] mm: page_alloc: remain memblock_next_valid

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Message-ID: <fda3d3d4-b1da-6020-4257-1c8819800930@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 5 Apr 2018 20:29:30 +0800
From:   Jia He <hejianet@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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        linux-mm@...ck.org, Jia He <jia.he@...-semitech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] mm: page_alloc: remain memblock_next_valid_pfn()
 on arm and arm64

Thanks, Matthew


On 4/5/2018 7:23 PM, Matthew Wilcox Wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 01:04:34AM -0700, Jia He wrote:
>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/arm96_common.h
> 'arm96_common'?!  No.  Just no.
>
> The right way to share common code is to create a header file (or use
> an existing one), either in asm-generic or linux, with a #ifdef CONFIG_foo
> block and then 'select foo' in the arm Kconfig files.  That allows this
> common code to be shared, maybe with powerpc or x86 or ... in the future.
>
ok
How about include/asm-generic/early_pfn.h ?
And could I use CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID and CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCKin 
this case?
Currently, arm/arm64 have memblock enable by default. When other arches 
implement
their HAVE_MEMBLOCK and HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID, they can include this file?

-- 
Cheers,
Jia