Re: [PATCHv8 07/12] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

["Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>]

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:34:27PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> +unsigned long cma_reserve(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
>> +			  unsigned long alignment)
>> +{
>> +	pr_debug("%s(%p+%p/%p)\n", __func__, (void *)start, (void *)size,
>> +		 (void *)alignment);
>> +
>> +	/* Sanity checks */
>> +	if (!size || (alignment & (alignment - 1)))
>> +		return (unsigned long)-EINVAL;
>> +
>> +	/* Sanitise input arguments */
>> +	start = PAGE_ALIGN(start);
>> +	size  = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
>> +	if (alignment < PAGE_SIZE)
>> +		alignment = PAGE_SIZE;
>> +
>> +	/* Reserve memory */
>> +	if (start) {
>> +		if (memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size) ||
>> +		    memblock_reserve(start, size) < 0)
>> +			return (unsigned long)-EBUSY;
>> +	} else {
>> +		/*
>> +		 * Use __memblock_alloc_base() since
>> +		 * memblock_alloc_base() panic()s.
>> +		 */
>> +		u64 addr = __memblock_alloc_base(size, alignment, 0);
>> +		if (!addr) {
>> +			return (unsigned long)-ENOMEM;
>> +		} else if (addr + size > ~(unsigned long)0) {
>> +			memblock_free(addr, size);
>> +			return (unsigned long)-EOVERFLOW;
>> +		} else {
>> +			start = addr;
>> +		}
>> +	}
>> +

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:43:33 +0100, Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Reserving the areas of memory belonging to CMA using memblock_reserve,
> would preclude that range from the zones, due to which it would not be
> available for buddy allocations right ?

Correct.  CMA however, injects allocated pageblocks to buddy so they end
up in buddy with migratetype set to MIGRATE_CMA.

>> +	return start;
>> +}

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