From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/1] mm/debug: Add tests for architecture exported page table helpers
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 03:16:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190809101632.GM5482@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565335998-22553-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:03:17PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Should alloc_gigantic_page() be made available as an interface for general
> use in the kernel. The test module here uses very similar implementation from
> HugeTLB to allocate a PUD aligned memory block. Similar for mm_alloc() which
> needs to be exported through a header.
Why are you allocating memory at all instead of just using some
known-to-exist PFNs like I suggested?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-09 7:33 [RFC V2 0/1] mm/debug: Add tests for architecture exported page table helpers Anshuman Khandual
2019-08-09 7:33 ` [RFC V2 1/1] mm/pgtable/debug: Add test validating architecture " Anshuman Khandual
2019-08-09 10:16 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-08-09 10:35 ` [RFC V2 0/1] mm/debug: Add tests for architecture exported " Anshuman Khandual
2019-08-09 13:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-26 2:37 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-08-26 13:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-08-28 9:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-08-09 11:44 ` Mark Rutland
2019-08-26 2:29 ` Anshuman Khandual
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