On 22.10.24 10:38, Maxime Ripard wrote: Hi,
I'm still interested in merging a carve-out driver[1], since it seems to be in every vendor BSP and got asked again last week. I remember from our discussion that for new heap types to be merged, we needed a kernel use-case. Looking back, I'm not entirely sure how one can provide that given that heaps are essentially facilities for user-space.
For those who didn't follow your work, could you please give a short intro what's that all about ? If I understand you correctly, you'd like the infrastructure of kmalloc() et al for things / memory regions that aren't the usual heap, right ? What's the practical use case ? GPU memory ? Shared memory between nodes in a multi-CPU / cluster machine ? Is it related to NUMA ? thx --mtx
