Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 3/9] x86, dma: Support allocate memory from bottom upwards in dma_contiguous_reserve().

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On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 11:36 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> Hi Toshi,
> 
> On 09/13/2013 03:22 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> ......
> >> +		if (memblock_direction_bottom_up()) {
> >> +			addr = memblock_alloc_bottom_up(
> >> +						MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE,
> >> +						limit, size, alignment);
> >> +			if (addr)
> >> +				goto success;
> >> +		}
> >
> > I am afraid that this version went to a wrong direction.  Allocating
> > from the bottom up needs to be an internal logic within the memblock
> > allocator.  It should not require the callers to be aware of the
> > direction and make a special request.
> >
> 
> I think my v1 patch-set was trying to do so. Was it too complicated ?
> 
> So just move this logic to memblock_find_in_range_node(), is this OK ?

Yes, the new version looks good on this.

Thanks,
-Toshi

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