From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933394Ab3LESvW (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:51:22 -0500 Received: from mail-qe0-f51.google.com ([209.85.128.51]:45510 "EHLO mail-qe0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752293Ab3LESvV (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:51:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:51:16 -0500 From: Tejun Heo To: "Strashko, Grygorii" Cc: "Shilimkar, Santosh" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Yinghai Lu , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/23] mm/memblock: Add memblock memory allocation apis Message-ID: <20131205185116.GA27274@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <1386037658-3161-1-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <1386037658-3161-9-git-send-email-santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> <20131203232445.GX8277@htj.dyndns.org> <52A0AB34.2030703@ti.com> <20131205165325.GA24062@mtj.dyndns.org> <902E09E6452B0E43903E4F2D568737AB097B26B2@DNCE04.ent.ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <902E09E6452B0E43903E4F2D568737AB097B26B2@DNCE04.ent.ti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey, On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 06:48:21PM +0000, Strashko, Grygorii wrote: > +/* Fall back to all the existing bootmem APIs */ > +#define memblock_virt_alloc(x) \ > + __alloc_bootmem(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT) > > which will be transformed to > +/* Fall back to all the existing bootmem APIs */ > +#define memblock_virt_alloc(x, align) \ > + __alloc_bootmem(x, align, BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT) > > and used as > > memblock_virt_alloc(size, 0); > > so, by default bootmem code will use 0 as default alignment and not SMP_CACHE_BYTES > and that is wrong. Just translate it to SMP_CACHE_BYTES? Am I missing something here? You're defining a new API which wraps around two interfaces. Wrap them so that they show the same desired behavior? -- tejun