From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx131.postini.com [74.125.245.131]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B72436B0031 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:34:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <52328839.9010309@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:36:25 +0800 From: Tang Chen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 3/9] x86, dma: Support allocate memory from bottom upwards in dma_contiguous_reserve(). References: <1378979537-21196-1-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> <1378979537-21196-4-git-send-email-tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> <1379013759.13477.12.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <1379013759.13477.12.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Toshi Kani Cc: tj@kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, lenb@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, trenn@suse.de, yinghai@kernel.org, jiang.liu@huawei.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com, mgorman@suse.de, minchan@kernel.org, mina86@mina86.com, gong.chen@linux.intel.com, vasilis.liaskovitis@profitbricks.com, lwoodman@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com, jweiner@redhat.com, prarit@redhat.com, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi Toshi, On 09/13/2013 03:22 AM, Toshi Kani wrote: ...... >> + if (memblock_direction_bottom_up()) { >> + addr = memblock_alloc_bottom_up( >> + MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, >> + limit, size, alignment); >> + if (addr) >> + goto success; >> + } > > I am afraid that this version went to a wrong direction. Allocating > from the bottom up needs to be an internal logic within the memblock > allocator. It should not require the callers to be aware of the > direction and make a special request. > I think my v1 patch-set was trying to do so. Was it too complicated ? So just move this logic to memblock_find_in_range_node(), is this OK ? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org