[PATCH V4 0/3] arm64: Enable vmemmap mapping from device memory

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Thu Jul 9 13:30:17 AEST 2020



On 07/06/2020 08:26 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This series enables vmemmap backing memory allocation from device memory
> ranges on arm64. But before that, it enables vmemmap_populate_basepages()
> and vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() to accommodate struct vmem_altmap based
> alocation requests.
> 
> This series applies on 5.8-rc4.
> 
> Changes in V4:
> 
> - Dropped 'fallback' from vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() per Catalin

Hello Andrew,

This series has been a long running one :) Now that all the three patches
here have been reviewed, could you please consider this series for merging
towards 5.9-rc1. Catalin had suggested earlier [1] that it should go via
the MM tree instead, as it touches multiple architecture. Thank you.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11611103/

- Anshuman


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