On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 09:23:32AM +0800, Liang Li wrote:
> Expose the function to get the max pfn, so it can be used in the
> virtio-balloon device driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Li <liang.z...@intel.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>
> ---
> mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 8b3e134..7da61ad 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -4517,6 +4517,12 @@ void show_free_areas(unsigned int filter)
> show_swap_cache_info();
> }
>
> +unsigned long get_max_pfn(void)
> +{
> + return max_pfn;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_max_pfn);
> +
This needs a coment that this can change at any time.
So it's only good as a hint e.g. for sizing data structures.
> static void zoneref_set_zone(struct zone *zone, struct zoneref *zoneref)
> {
> zoneref->zone = zone;
> --
> 1.9.1
