On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 03:15:47PM +0100, Janosch Frank wrote: > 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 :) > I'll also try to find some time to revisit this. Thanks, drew
