[PATCH v4] arm64/mm: add fallback option to allocate virtually contiguous memory

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Nov 17 13:33:27 EST 2020


On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:56:55 -0700, Sudarshan Rajagopalan wrote:
> V1: The initial patch used the approach to abort at the first instance of PMD_SIZE
> allocation failure, unmaps all previously mapped sections using vmemmap_free
> and maps the entire request with vmemmap_populate_basepages to allocate
> virtually contiguous memory.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/10/66
> 
> V2: Allocates virtually contiguous memory only for sections that failed
> PMD_SIZE allocation, and continous to allocate physically contiguous
> memory for other sections.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/30/1489
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/mm: add fallback option to allocate virtually contiguous memory
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/9f84f39f5515

(figured out which v3 and v4 have the same message-id and presumably the
same patch)

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Catalin




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