Re: [PATCH v3 07/10] lib/memregion: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:23 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:27:50PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > diff --git a/lib/memregion.c b/lib/memregion.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..f6c6a94c7921
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/memregion.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> > +#include <linux/idr.h>
> > +
> > +static DEFINE_IDA(region_ids);
> > +
> > +int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > +     return ida_alloc(&region_ids, gfp);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_alloc);
> > +
> > +void memregion_free(int id)
> > +{
> > +     ida_free(&region_ids, id);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_free);
>
> Does this trivial abstraction have to live in its own file?  I'd make
> memregion_alloc/free static inlines that live in a header file, then
> all you need do is find a suitable .c file to store memregion_ids in,
> and export that one symbol instead of two.

Ok, I think since these "memregion" objects tend to be closely related
to "device memory" I'll stash this in kernel/memremap.c with the rest
of the "ZONE_DEVICE" apis.