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From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] lib/memregion: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 14:02:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hruLHWpEq_fT=_uFeO8X6KLjLsR2=s577iXey+NUFz4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190404193211.GK22763@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:32 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:08:38PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig
> > @@ -318,6 +318,12 @@ config DECOMPRESS_LZ4
> >  config GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
> >       bool
> >
> > +#
> > +# Generic IDA for memory regions
> > +#
>
> Leaky abstraction -- nobody needs know that it's implemented as an IDA.
> Suggest:
>
> # Memory region ID allocation
>

Looks good to me.

> ...
>
> > +++ b/lib/memregion.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> > +#include <linux/idr.h>
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +
> > +static DEFINE_IDA(region_ida);
> > +
> > +int memregion_alloc(void)
> > +{
> > +     return ida_simple_get(&region_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_alloc);
> > +
> > +void memregion_free(int id)
> > +{
> > +     ida_simple_remove(&region_ida, id);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_free);
> > +
> > +static void __exit memregion_exit(void)
> > +{
> > +     ida_destroy(&region_ida);
> > +}
> > +module_exit(memregion_exit);
>
>  - Should these be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL?

I don't see the need. These are simple wrappers around existing
EXPORT_SYMBOL() exports, and there's little concern that these
interfaces might disappear in the future causing us pain with out of
tree modules as these don't touch anything in the core.

>  - Can we use the new interface, ida_alloc() and ida_free()?

Sure.

>  - Do we really want memregion_exit() to happen while there are still IDs
>    allocated in the IDA?  I think this might well be better as:
>
>         BUG_ON(!ida_empty(&region_ida));

True, or just delete the module_exit because this functionality can't
be built as a module, so the exit path is already dead code.

> Also, do we really want to call the structure the region_ida?  Why not
> region_ids?

Sure, sounds good.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-04 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-04 19:08 [RFC PATCH 0/5] EFI Special Purpose Memory Support Dan Williams
2019-04-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] efi: Detect UEFI 2.8 Special Purpose Memory Dan Williams
2019-04-06  4:21   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-04-09 16:43     ` Dan Williams
2019-04-09 17:21       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-04-10  2:10         ` Dan Williams
2019-04-12 20:43           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-04-12 21:18             ` Dan Williams
2019-04-15 11:43       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] lib/memregion: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator Dan Williams
2019-04-04 19:32   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-04-04 21:02     ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-04-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] acpi/hmat: Track target address ranges Dan Williams
2019-04-04 20:58   ` Keith Busch
2019-04-04 20:58     ` Dan Williams
2019-04-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] acpi/hmat: Register special purpose memory as a device Dan Williams
2019-04-05 11:18   ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-04-05 15:43     ` Dan Williams
2019-04-05 16:23       ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-04-05 16:56         ` Dan Williams
2019-04-05 17:39           ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-04-09 12:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-09 14:49     ` Dan Williams
2019-04-04 19:08 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] device-dax: Add a driver for "hmem" devices Dan Williams

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