Hello, On Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:11 AM Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:07:17 +0200 > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > > This is yet another round of Contiguous Memory Allocator patches. I > hope > > > that I've managed to resolve all the items discussed during the Memory > > > Management summit at Linaro Meeting in Budapest and pointed later on > > > mailing lists. The goal is to integrate it as tight as possible with > > > other kernel subsystems (like memory management and dma-mapping) and > > > finally merge to mainline. > > > > You have certainly addressed all of my concerns, this looks really good > now! > > > > Andrew, can you add this to your -mm tree? What's your opinion on the > > current state, do you think this is ready for merging in 3.1 or would > > you want to have more reviews from core memory management people? > > > > My reviews were mostly on the driver and platform API side, and I think > > we're fine there now, but I don't really understand the impacts this has > > in mm. > > I could review it and put it in there on a preliminary basis for some > runtime testing. But the question in my mind is how different will the > code be after the problems which rmk has identified have been fixed? > > If "not very different" then that effort and testing will have been > worthwhile. The issue reported by Russell is very ARM specific and can be solved mostly in arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c, maybe with some minor changes/helpers in drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c The core part in linux/mm probably won't be affected by these changes at all. Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski Samsung Poland R&D Center -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>