[PATCH 2/6] x86: remove memblock_find_dma_reserve()

Baoquan He bhe at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 00:14:00 AEDT 2024


On 03/20/24 at 11:36am, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 03:52:52PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 03/19/24 at 05:49pm, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > Hi Baoquan,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 10:21:34PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > > > This is not needed any more.
> > > 
> > > I'd swap this and the first patch, so that the first patch would remove
> > > memblock_find_dma_reserve() and it's changelog will explain why it's not
> > > needed and then the second patch will simply drop unused set_dma_reserve()
> > 
> > Thanks, Mike.
> > 
> > My thought on the patch 1/2 splitting is:
> > patch 1 is removing all relevant codes in mm, including the usage of
> > dma_reserve in free_area_init_core() and exporting set_dma_reserve()
> > to any ARCH which want to subtract the dma_reserve from DMA zone.
> >
> > Patch 2 purely remove the code in x86 ARCH about how to get dma_reserve.
>  
> I think it's better first to remove the usage of set_dma_reserve() in x86
> and then clean up the unused code.

OK, firslty remove the only user, that sounds reasonable. Will change.
Thanks.



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