[PATCH] WIP: HACK: LPAE, BOOTMEM and NO_BOOTMEM

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:29:46AM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> So looks like I am bit confused here. The current memblock_alloc()
> API just returns the physical address which not mapped memory.

The memory returned by memblock is mapped if the memory area being
allocated can be mappable.  To access, the address just needs to be
converted to va.

> Most of the bootmem users including core code expects the
> mapped memory pointer which the code can directly operate on.
> So the current memblock_alloc() isn't going to help. The nobootmem.c
> has __alloc_memory_core_early() which is actually used by most of
> the bootmem wrappers to achieve the same. So my assumption was
> that we need an equivalent exported memblock API.
> 
> What am I missing?

Oh, you weren't.  I was.  I thought we already had full interface
implemented.  Yeah, it looks like we need to build something new
around memblock / __alloc_memory_core_early().

Thanks.

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tejun