[PATCHv4 2/5] lib/genalloc.c: Add genpool range check function
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Jul 22 08:50:12 PDT 2014
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 08:51:04PM +0100, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 7/9/2014 3:33 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> After allocating an address from a particular genpool,
> >> there is no good way to verify if that address actually
> >> belongs to a genpool. Introduce addr_in_gen_pool which
> >> will return if an address plus size falls completely
> >> within the genpool range.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <lauraa at codeaurora.org>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> >
> > What's the merge path for this code? Part of the arm64 code that needs
> > it, I presume?
>
> My plan was to have the entire series go through the arm64 tree unless
> someone has a better idea.
It's fine by me. But since it touches core arch/arm code, I would like
to see an Ack from Russell.
--
Catalin
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