Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> writes: > Currently, there are two users on CMA functionality, one is the DMA > subsystem and the other is the kvm on powerpc. They have their own code > to manage CMA reserved area even if they looks really similar. > From my guess, it is caused by some needs on bitmap management. Kvm side > wants to maintain bitmap not for 1 page, but for more size. Eventually it > use bitmap where one bit represents 64 pages. > > When I implement CMA related patches, I should change those two places > to apply my change and it seem to be painful to me. I want to change > this situation and reduce future code management overhead through > this patch. > > This change could also help developer who want to use CMA in their > new feature development, since they can use CMA easily without > copying & pasting this reserved area management code. > > v2: > Although this patchset looks very different with v1, the end result, > that is, mm/cma.c is same with v1's one. So I carry Ack to patch 6-7. > > Patch 1-5 prepare some features to cover ppc kvm's requirements. > Patch 6-7 generalize CMA reserved area management code and change users > to use it. > Patch 8-10 clean-up minor things. I wanted to test the ppc changes and found that the patch series doesn't apply against v3.15 . Do you have a kernel tree which I can clone to test this series ? -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>