From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>,
Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>,
Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>,
Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:05:16 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250916130516.GB1086830@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aMhAiR6qnXMA-c8r@kernel.org>
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 07:36:25PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Under the covers it all uses the generic folio based code we already
> > have, but we should have appropriate wrappers around that code that
> > make clear these patterns.
>
> Right, but that does not mean that vmalloc preserve/restore should use the
> public KHO APIs and avoid using internal methods.
I think it does, the same way vmalloc is layered on top of the buddy
allocator. Why wouldn't you build things in clean understandable
layers like this?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-16 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-08 10:35 [PATCH v3 0/2] " Mike Rapoport
2025-09-08 10:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Mike Rapoport
2025-09-08 14:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-15 14:01 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-15 14:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-15 16:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-08 18:12 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-09-08 18:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-09 14:33 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-09-15 14:12 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-15 14:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-09-15 16:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-16 13:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2025-09-16 13:21 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-09-16 14:34 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-16 12:48 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-09-16 14:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-15 14:08 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-09-16 12:43 ` Pratyush Yadav
2025-09-08 10:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] lib/test_kho: use kho_preserve_vmalloc instead of storing addresses in fdt Mike Rapoport
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2025-09-07 7:00 [PATCH v2 0/2] kho: add support for preserving vmalloc allocations Mike Rapoport
2025-09-07 7:00 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Mike Rapoport
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