[PATCH v2 08/23] mm/memblock: Add memblock memory allocation apis
Tejun Heo
tj at kernel.org
Thu Dec 5 13:51:16 EST 2013
Hey,
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:48:21PM +0000, Strashko, Grygorii wrote:
> +/* Fall back to all the existing bootmem APIs */
> +#define memblock_virt_alloc(x) \
> + __alloc_bootmem(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT)
>
> which will be transformed to
> +/* Fall back to all the existing bootmem APIs */
> +#define memblock_virt_alloc(x, align) \
> + __alloc_bootmem(x, align, BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT)
>
> and used as
>
> memblock_virt_alloc(size, 0);
>
> so, by default bootmem code will use 0 as default alignment and not SMP_CACHE_BYTES
> and that is wrong.
Just translate it to SMP_CACHE_BYTES? Am I missing something here?
You're defining a new API which wraps around two interfaces. Wrap
them so that they show the same desired behavior?
--
tejun
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