Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Allow dynamically requesting additional memory regions

2021-08-09 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:31:41PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Currently, all platforms will set up their heap on initialization of the > platform code. While this works mostly fine, it poses some limitations > on memory management on us. Most notably, allocating big chunks of > memory in th

[PATCH v2 1/4] mm: Allow dynamically requesting additional memory regions

2021-08-08 Thread Patrick Steinhardt
Currently, all platforms will set up their heap on initialization of the platform code. While this works mostly fine, it poses some limitations on memory management on us. Most notably, allocating big chunks of memory in the gigabyte range would require us to pre-request this many bytes from the fi