Re: [PATCH 3/3] memblock: cleanup memblock_free interface

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 23.09.21 09:43, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For ages memblock_free() interface dealt with physical addresses even
> despite the existence of memblock_alloc_xx() functions that return a
> virtual pointer.
>
> Introduce memblock_phys_free() for freeing physical ranges and repurpose
> memblock_free() to free virtual pointers to make the following pairing
> abundantly clear:
>
>         int memblock_phys_free(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
>         phys_addr_t memblock_phys_alloc(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size);
>
>         void *memblock_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align);
>         void memblock_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
>
> Replace intermediate memblock_free_ptr() with memblock_free() and drop
> unnecessary aliases memblock_free_early() and memblock_free_early_nid().
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
arch/x86/xen/ parts: Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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