Re: [PATCH v2] memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 09:37:37AM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are a lot of uses of memblock_find_in_range() along with
> memblock_reserve() from the times memblock allocation APIs did not exist.
> 
> memblock_find_in_range() is the very core of memblock allocations, so any
> future changes to its internal behaviour would mandate updates of all the
> users outside memblock.
> 
> Replace the calls to memblock_find_in_range() with an equivalent calls to
> memblock_phys_alloc() and memblock_phys_alloc_range() and make
> memblock_find_in_range() private method of memblock.
> 
> This simplifies the callers, ensures that (unlikely) errors in
> memblock_reserve() are handled and improves maintainability of
> memblock_find_in_range().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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