From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE684C31E40 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9454A2171F for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:17:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="pag4yExu" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2406352AbfHIKRI (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2019 06:17:08 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:52306 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726091AbfHIKRH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Aug 2019 06:17:07 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=qtavp7CPHfZNeNkYBrPvAtPsbANfqFLQtCdliW3pDao=; b=pag4yExuYAml6RAwW8ClSI/8O 4SvhyG05DRb/VW/V9CDsF+zHeZ5UXFBZuSEmH6L2R/TkkFTUdvg0G5X+mChPhSDo0bv/G81bqVcOE H0+ebgEssg+HPPdNYRmJesf50lZppQPNOWSyxdr7otHpaF8cn8K9ckBUuEcdXQR2moiTTpd1jGx/f vjh5YbK7fMXAxAHvYpu7bjS0cCBSZ//FEHycRa1QcZu/mYorpr133FpqiXnyp7o6RFhVYguPt/B8f P2fGNwRrQbpxYk76nYUeyruj+MAsigriKyn6idQDkNDTkIb9YC0oHITHhwpJDVUNGhDUhHSp0NaMd UOTH8wydQ==; Received: from willy by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hw1wn-0006xR-4P; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:16:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 03:16:33 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Anshuman Khandual Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Mike Rapoport , Jason Gunthorpe , Dan Williams , Peter Zijlstra , Michal Hocko , Mark Rutland , Mark Brown , Steven Price , Ard Biesheuvel , Masahiro Yamada , Kees Cook , Tetsuo Handa , Sri Krishna chowdary , Dave Hansen , Russell King - ARM Linux , Michael Ellerman , Paul Mackerras , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , "David S. Miller" , Vineet Gupta , James Hogan , Paul Burton , Ralf Baechle , linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/1] mm/debug: Add tests for architecture exported page table helpers Message-ID: <20190809101632.GM5482@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <1565335998-22553-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1565335998-22553-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.4 (2019-03-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?