Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jun 2022 02:49:58 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/vmalloc: Extend __alloc_vmap_area() with extra arguments |
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:34:46AM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote: > It implies that __alloc_vmap_area() allocates only from the > global vmap space, therefore a list-head and rb-tree, which > represent a free vmap space, are not passed as parameters to > this function and are accessed directly from this function.
Yes, which totally makes sense.
> Extend the __alloc_vmap_area() and other dependent functions > to have a possibility to allocate from different trees making > an interface common and not specific.
Which seems completely pointless. Why add argument that are always passed the same values?
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