Re: [PATCH RFC 2/9] sparse-vmemmap: Consolidate arguments in vmemmap section populate

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On 2/20/21 1:49 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 9:31 AM Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Replace vmem_altmap with an vmem_context argument. That let us
>> express how the vmemmap is gonna be initialized e.g. passing
>> flags and a page size for reusing pages upon initializing the
>> vmemmap.
>>
> 
> Per the comment on the last patch, if compound dev_pagemap never
> collides with vmem_altmap then I don't think this patch is needed.
> 
See my previous patch reply. It *might* be worth keeping that around.

And since the RFC, nvdimm is going to need a slight adjustment for the
altmap reserve pfn range, should we keep altmap around.




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