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authorBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>2023-02-06 16:40:15 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-09 16:51:42 -0800
commit869176a096068056b338b5cc1b0af93106007f5d (patch)
treee365ddc755b792a0b50fdf31e0b2e3081e40544d /include/linux/vmalloc.h
parentd76f99548cf0474c3bf75f25fab1778e03ade5f2 (diff)
mm/vmalloc.c: add flags to mark vm_map_ram area
Through vmalloc API, a virtual kernel area is reserved for physical address mapping. And vmap_area is used to track them, while vm_struct is allocated to associate with the vmap_area to store more information and passed out. However, area reserved via vm_map_ram() is an exception. It doesn't have vm_struct to associate with vmap_area. And we can't recognize the vmap_area with '->vm == NULL' as a vm_map_ram() area because the normal freeing path will set va->vm = NULL before unmapping, please see function remove_vm_area(). Meanwhile, there are two kinds of handling for vm_map_ram area. One is the whole vmap_area being reserved and mapped at one time through vm_map_area() interface; the other is the whole vmap_area with VMAP_BLOCK_SIZE size being reserved, while mapped into split regions with smaller size via vb_alloc(). To mark the area reserved through vm_map_ram(), add flags field into struct vmap_area. Bit 0 indicates this is vm_map_ram area created through vm_map_ram() interface, while bit 1 marks out the type of vm_map_ram area which makes use of vmap_block to manage split regions via vb_alloc/free(). This is a preparation for later use. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230206084020.174506-3-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/vmalloc.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 096d48aa3437..69250efa03d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct vmap_area {
unsigned long subtree_max_size; /* in "free" tree */
struct vm_struct *vm; /* in "busy" tree */
};
+ unsigned long flags; /* mark type of vm_map_ram area */
};
/* archs that select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP should override one or more of these */