Messages in this thread | | | From | KOSAKI Motohiro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller() | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:47 +0900 (JST) |
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> We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not __get_vm_area_caller() > > On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses given > to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order to be > able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I need > a "_caller" variant of it. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
It seems reasonable reason and this patch looks good to me :) Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the > patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?
hm. Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first. but I don't think this patch have conflict risk.
Andrew, What do you think?
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