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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@antgroup.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 15/73] mm/vmalloc: Add a helper to reserve a contiguous and aligned kernel virtual area
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 06:56:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zd34GHtHlnpPtg5v@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240226143630.33643-16-jiangshanlai@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:35:32PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> From: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@antgroup.com>
> 
> PVM needs to reserve a contiguous and aligned kernel virtual area for

Who is "PVM", and why does it need aligned virtual memory space?

> +extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area_align(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,

No need for the extern here.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-27 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20240226143630.33643-1-jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
2024-02-26 14:35 ` Lai Jiangshan
2024-02-27 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-02-27 17:07     ` Lai Jiangshan

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