linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memblock: Introduce memblock_reserve

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Message-ID: <20230625050850.GJ52412@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:08:50 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: Introduce memblock_reserve_node()

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 10:46:22AM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
> It only returns address now in memblock_find_in_range_node(), we can add a
> parameter pointing to integer for node id of the range, which can be used
> to pass the node id to the new reserve region.
> 
> Introduce memblock_reserve_node() so that the node id can be passed to
> the reserve region in memblock_alloc_range_nid().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>

What problem does this patch solve?

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.