Re: [PATCH V6 1/4] mm/cma: Add PF flag to force non cma alloc

2019-01-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 10:21:07AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > This patch add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that > context > is marked non movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region. > > This is useful with get_user_pages_cma_migrate where we take a page pin

[PATCH V6 1/4] mm/cma: Add PF flag to force non cma alloc

2019-01-07 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
This patch add PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA which make sure any allocation in that context is marked non movable and hence cannot be satisfied by CMA region. This is useful with get_user_pages_cma_migrate where we take a page pin by migrating pages from CMA region. Marking the section PF_MEMALLOC_NOCMA