From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm/vmalloc: Extend __find_vmap_area() with one more argument
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 15:03:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+KHdyWaRKRu+EAFs=YWft+zmxcd4J_ikJkZ4g_SMx_T5dZvDg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yp8ezezY37tvuZPy@infradead.org>
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022 at 11:47 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:34:48AM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> > __find_vmap_area() finds a "vmap_area" based on passed address.
> > It scan the specific "vmap_area_root" rb-tree. Extend the function
> > with one extra argument, so any tree can be specified where the
> > search has to be done.
>
> Uhh, why? This just adds a copletel useless argument.
>
I wrote about it in the cover latter. It is a preparation work for
making vmalloc per-cpu.
In that case free/busy data are located on different rb_roots that is
why those functions
have to be adopted to work with any tree.
--
Uladzislau Rezki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-07 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-07 9:34 [PATCH 0/5] Reduce a vmalloc internal lock contention preparation work Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-07 9:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/vmalloc: Make link_va()/unlink_va() common to different rb_root Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-08 3:45 ` Baoquan He
2022-06-07 9:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmalloc: Extend __alloc_vmap_area() with extra arguments Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-07 9:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-07 13:02 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-06-10 8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-08 3:46 ` Baoquan He
2022-06-07 9:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/vmalloc: Initialize VA's list node after unlink Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-08 3:19 ` Baoquan He
2022-06-09 12:36 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-06-09 13:30 ` Baoquan He
2022-06-09 13:53 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-06-07 9:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm/vmalloc: Extend __find_vmap_area() with one more argument Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-07 9:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-06-07 13:03 ` Uladzislau Rezki [this message]
2022-06-08 3:47 ` Baoquan He
2022-06-07 9:34 ` [PATCH 5/5] lib/test_vmalloc: Switch to prandom_u32() Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)
2022-06-07 22:35 ` [PATCH 0/5] Reduce a vmalloc internal lock contention preparation work Andrew Morton
2022-06-08 10:05 ` Uladzislau Rezki
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