On 03/22/2010 02:52 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 22:20 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> So no arguments from me at all about the code quality aspects - i just wanted >> to highlight the huge amount of non-trivial work Yinghai has invested into >> this already, with little external help, and that if possible it would be nice >> to minimize the upsetting of related x86 code if possible. Please help him out >> with more specific suggestions about how the two memory allocation spaces >> could be unified best, to serve the needs of all these architectures - if you >> have some spare time. > > Why not start by unifying the APIs to it, while keeping the > implementation in the arch for now ? That would be a good first step and > would give us a good idea of what kind of requirements all the archs > have since to some extent those requirements need to be represented in > this API. current early_res has reserve/free/find and don't have alloc, because it is equal to find + reserve. all the find related will subtract reserved area already. and it use start/end (goal/limit) and it will honor goal. extern void reserve_early(u64 start, u64 end, char *name); extern void reserve_early_overlap_ok(u64 start, u64 end, char *name); extern void free_early(u64 start, u64 end); void free_early_partial(u64 start, u64 end); extern void early_res_to_bootmem(u64 start, u64 end); void reserve_early_without_check(u64 start, u64 end, char *name); u64 find_early_area(u64 ei_start, u64 ei_last, u64 start, u64 end, u64 size, u64 align); u64 find_early_area_size(u64 ei_start, u64 ei_last, u64 start, u64 *sizep, u64 align); u64 find_fw_memmap_area(u64 start, u64 end, u64 size, u64 align); u64 get_max_mapped(void); int get_free_all_memory_range(struct range **rangep, int nodeid); lmd has: reserve/free/alloc and it does have lmb_find, but that doesn't subtract reserved area. also lmb_alloc doesn't take goal. and only have limit there. YH -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html