Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 4/4] lib/x86/vm: enable malloc and friends

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On 31/10/2016 19:51, Andrew Jones wrote:
> We've had malloc, calloc, free, and memalign available for quite a
> while, and arm and powerpc make use of them. x86 hasn't yet, but
> let's give it the option. arm and powerpc use the early_alloc_ops,
> built on phys_alloc, but x86 already has virtual memory management,
> so we can build on that instead.

What are your plans for using them?  vmalloc imposes a pretty large
alignment and is quite different from early_alloc_ops, so I'm not sure
it's a good idea to conflate the two into the same high-level API.

Thanks,

Paolo
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