[RFC PATCHv2 0/4] Intermix Lowmem and Vmalloc
From: Laura Abbott <hidden>
Date: 2013-11-12 22:27:41
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Hi, This is v2 of a patch series to allow lowmem and vmalloc to be intermixed (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-November/210578.html provides the full decriptions which I've omitted here for brevity) Nots I forgot to mention before: - as a side effect of how CMA is setup, the remapped lowmem regions are explicitly printed out in /proc/vmallocinfo which has turned out to be useful for debugging. I couldn't find a good way to support those and the lowmem regions in vmalloc short of adding partial region unmapping. - I still have a nagging concern about regions that straddle the lowmem/highmem boundary causing problems. I haven't been able to find a concrete issue yet though.. v2: Fixed several comments by Kyungmin Park which led me to discover several issues with the is_vmalloc_addr implementation. is_vmalloc_addr is probably the ugliest part of the entire series and I debated if adding extra vmalloc flags would make it less ugly. Again, comments or suggestions on how to better accomplish this are welcome. Thanks, Laura