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    mm/memblock: add memblock memory allocation apis · 26f09e9b
    Santosh Shilimkar authored
    
    
    Introduce memblock memory allocation APIs which allow to support PAE or
    LPAE extension on 32 bits archs where the physical memory start address
    can be beyond 4GB.  In such cases, existing bootmem APIs which operate
    on 32 bit addresses won't work and needs memblock layer which operates
    on 64 bit addresses.
    
    So we add equivalent APIs so that we can replace usage of bootmem with
    memblock interfaces.  Architectures already converted to NO_BOOTMEM use
    these new memblock interfaces.  The architectures which are still not
    converted to NO_BOOTMEM continue to function as is because we still
    maintain the fal lback option of bootmem back-end supporting these new
    interfaces.  So no functional change as such.
    
    In long run, once all the architectures moves to NO_BOOTMEM, we can get
    rid of bootmem layer completely.  This is one step to remove the core
    code dependency with bootmem and also gives path for architectures to
    move away from bootmem.
    
    The proposed interface will became active if both CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK
    and CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM are specified by arch.  In case
    !CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM, the memblock() wrappers will fallback to the
    existing bootmem apis so that arch's not converted to NO_BOOTMEM
    continue to work as is.
    
    The meaning of MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE and MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE
    is kept same.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depricated/deprecated/]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGrygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
    Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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