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authorAnshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>2020-08-06 23:23:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-07 11:33:27 -0700
commit56993b4e147e9f2ba91ac15ef9ae5ee0626a6850 (patch)
tree5e6698f1f9c8caf0eddab295708256643708e69a /Documentation/vm
parent1d9cfee7535c213038a615f112c900c2d0ba8f54 (diff)
mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available or not. vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to allocate vmemmap mappings. Lets also enable it to handle altmap based device memory allocation along with existing regular memory allocations. This will help in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many places. To summarize there are two different methods to call vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(). vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, NULL) /* Allocate from system RAM */ vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, altmap) /* Allocate from altmap */ This converts altmap_alloc_block_buf() into a static function, drops it's entry from the header and updates Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst. Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594004178-8861-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
index cc65bc85d260..2b898a27b346 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ for persistent memory devices in pre-allocated storage on those
devices. This storage is represented with :c:type:`struct vmem_altmap`
that is eventually passed to vmemmap_populate() through a long chain
of function calls. The vmemmap_populate() implementation may use the
-`vmem_altmap` along with :c:func:`altmap_alloc_block_buf` helper to
+`vmem_altmap` along with :c:func:`vmemmap_alloc_block_buf` helper to
allocate memory map on the persistent memory device.
ZONE_DEVICE