On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 07:00:59PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 05:58:49PM -0400, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > > > Introduce memblock early memory allocation APIs which allow to support > > > LPAE extension on 32 bits archs. More over, this is the next step > > > > LPAE isn't something people outside arm circle would understand. > > Let's stick to highmem. > > LPAE != highmem. Two totally different things, unless you believe > system memory always starts at physical address zero, which is very > far from the case on the majority of ARM platforms. > > So replacing LPAE with "highmem" is pure misrepresentation and is > inaccurate. PAE might be a better term, and is also the x86 term > for this.
Ah, right, forgot about the base address. Let's please spell out the requirements then. Briefly explaining both aspects (non-zero base addr & highmem) and why the existing bootmem based interfaced can't serve them would be helpful to later readers. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
