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mm/memblock: cleanup on duplicate VA/PA conversion
authorGavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 May 2012 22:06:50 +0000 (15:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 May 2012 23:22:24 +0000 (16:22 -0700)
commit4e2f07750d9a94e8f23e86408df5ab95be88bf11
tree8d2d1b24619817b9a553361a9dc967b3c39a2585
parent5bf5f03c271907978489868a4c72aeb42b5127d2
mm/memblock: cleanup on duplicate VA/PA conversion

The overall memblock has been organized into the memory regions and
reserved regions.  Initially, the memory regions and reserved regions are
stored in the predetermined arrays of "struct memblock _region".  It's
possible for the arrays to be enlarged when we have newly added regions
for them, but no enough space there.  Under the situation, We will created
double-sized array to meet the requirement.  However, the original
implementation converted the VA (Virtual Address) of the newly allocated
array of regions to PA (Physical Address), then translate back when we
allocates the new array from slab.  That's actually unnecessary.

The patch removes the duplicate VA/PA conversion.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memblock.c