Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: add fallback option to allocate virtually contiguous memory

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 08:48:40PM +0000, sudaraja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2020-09-10 03:50, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > The proposed patch tried to mix both approaches. Regardless, the first
> > approach
> > here seems better and is the case in vmemmap_populate_hugepages()
> > implementation
> > on x86 as well.
> 
> The 1st approach looks more cleaner compared to bailing out in first
> failure, unmapping all previously mapped sections and map entire request
> with vmemmap_populate_basepages. Thanks for the review and suggestion - will
> send over a cleaner patch soon.

Did you send an updated version of this? The threading has gone wonky in
my mail client, so I may have missed it.

Will