user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/vmalloc.h, branch v3.9

ARM: dma-mapping: remove custom consistent dma region

2012-07-30T10:25:45Z

This patch changes dma-mapping subsystem to use generic vmalloc areas for all consistent dma allocations. This increases the total size limit of the consistent allocations and removes platform hacks and a lot of duplicated code. Atomic allocations are served from special pool preallocated on boot, because vmalloc areas cannot be reliably created in atomic context. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim

mm: vmalloc: use const void * for caller argument

2012-07-30T10:25:44Z

'const void *' is a safer type for caller function type. This patch updates all references to caller function type. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim

Merge branch 'vmalloc' of git://git.linaro.org/people/nico/linux into devel-stable

2011-12-05T23:27:59Z

mm: add vm_area_add_early()

2011-11-18T18:51:22Z

The existing vm_area_register_early() allows for early vmalloc space allocation. However upcoming cleanups in the ARM architecture require that some fixed locations in the vmalloc area be reserved also very early. The name "vm_area_register_early" would have been a good name for the reservation part without the allocation. Since it is already in use with different semantics, let's create vm_area_add_early() instead. Both vm_area_register_early() and vm_area_add_early() can be used together meaning that the former is now implemented using the later where it is ensured that no conflicting areas are added, but no attempt is made to make the allocation scheme in vm_area_register_early() more sophisticated. After all, you must know what you're doing when using those functions. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Acked-by: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly

2011-11-16T17:13:08Z

When mapping a foreign page with xenbus_map_ring_valloc() with the GNTTABOP_map_grant_ref hypercall, set the GNTMAP_contains_pte flag and pass a pointer to the PTE (in init_mm). After the page is mapped, the usual fault mechanism can be used to update additional MMs. This allows the vmalloc_sync_all() to be removed from alloc_vm_area(). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Acked-by: Andrew Morton [v1: Squashed fix by Michal for no-mmu case] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Michal Simek

mm: avoid null pointer access in vm_struct via /proc/vmallocinfo

2011-11-01T00:30:47Z

The /proc/vmallocinfo shows information about vmalloc allocations in vmlist that is a linklist of vm_struct. It, however, may access pages field of vm_struct where a page was not allocated. This results in a null pointer access and leads to a kernel panic. Why this happens: In __vmalloc_node_range() called from vmalloc(), newly allocated vm_struct is added to vmlist at __get_vm_area_node() and then, some fields of vm_struct such as nr_pages and pages are set at __vmalloc_area_node(). In other words, it is added to vmlist before it is fully initialized. At the same time, when the /proc/vmallocinfo is read, it accesses the pages field of vm_struct according to the nr_pages field at show_numa_info(). Thus, a null pointer access happens. The patch adds the newly allocated vm_struct to the vmlist *after* it is fully initialized. So, it can avoid accessing the pages field with unallocated page when show_numa_info() is called. Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

NOMMU: support SMP dynamic percpu_alloc

2011-03-28T11:53:29Z

The percpu code requires more functions to be implemented in the mm core which nommu currently does not provide. So add inline implementations since these are largely meaningless on nommu systems. Signed-off-by: Graf Yang Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Greg Ungerer

mm: unify module_alloc code for vmalloc

2011-01-14T01:32:34Z

Four architectures (arm, mips, sparc, x86) use __vmalloc_area() for module_init(). Much of the code is duplicated and can be generalized in a globally accessible function, __vmalloc_node_range(). __vmalloc_node() now calls into __vmalloc_node_range() with a range of [VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END) for functionally equivalent behavior. Each architecture may then use __vmalloc_node_range() directly to remove the duplication of code. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Russell King Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas

2011-01-14T01:32:34Z

pcpu_get_vm_areas() only uses GFP_KERNEL allocations, so remove the gfp_t formal and use the mask internally. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove unused get_vm_area_node

2011-01-14T01:32:34Z

get_vm_area_node() is unused in the kernel and can thus be removed. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds