[PATCH 0/2] Enable ZONE_DEVICE on POWER

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri May 6 00:48:50 AEST 2016


Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> This enables base ZONE_DEVICE support on POWER. This series depends on
> the following patches posted by Oliver.
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/618867/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/618868/
>
> Anshuman Khandual (2):
>   powerpc/mm: Make vmemmap_populate accommodate ZONE_DEVICE memory
>   powerpc/mm: Enable support for ZONE_DEVICE on PPC_BOOK3S_64 platforms
>
>  arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 4 +++-
>  mm/Kconfig                | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>

What is the use case ? Who will use ZONE_DEVICE on ppc64. This should be
be merged along with the patch series that use this. 

-aneesh



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