[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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