On 11/5/20 1:16 PM, Pierre Morel wrote: > > > On 9/29/20 9:19 AM, Janosch Frank wrote: >> On 9/28/20 5:31 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: >>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:23:34 +0200 >>> Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> Some architectures need allocations to be done under a >>>> specific address limit to allow DMA from I/O. >>>> >>>> We propose here a very simple page allocator to get >>>> pages allocated under this specific limit. >>>> >>>> The DMA page allocator will only use part of the available memory >>>> under the DMA address limit to let room for the standard allocator. >>>> > > ...snip... > >> >> Before we start any other discussion on this patch we should clear up if >> this is still necessary after Claudio's alloc revamp. >> >> I think he added options to request special types of memory. > > Isn't it possible to go on with this patch series. > It can be adapted later to the changes that will be introduced by > Claudio when it is final. > > Pierre, that's outside of my jurisdiction, you're adding code to the common code library. I've set Paolo CC, let's see if he finds this thread :)
