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authorHATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>2013-07-03 15:02:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:07:30 -0700
commite69e9d4aee712a22665f008ae0550bb3d7c7f7c1 (patch)
treebb63cd5b881678c902f6b5e197a107022825be30 /include/linux
parentcef2ac3f6c8ab532e49cf69d05f540931ad8ee64 (diff)
vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
We want to allocate ELF note segment buffer on the 2nd kernel in vmalloc space and remap it to user-space in order to reduce the risk that memory allocation fails on system with huge number of CPUs and so with huge ELF note segment that exceeds 11-order block size. Although there's already remap_vmalloc_range for the purpose of remapping vmalloc memory to user-space, we need to specify user-space range via vma. Mmap on /proc/vmcore needs to remap range across multiple objects, so the interface that requires vma to cover full range is problematic. This patch introduces remap_vmalloc_range_partial that receives user-space range as a pair of base address and size and can be used for mmap on /proc/vmcore case. remap_vmalloc_range is rewritten using remap_vmalloc_range_partial. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_ALIGNED()] Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 7d5773a99f20..dd0a2c810529 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot);
extern void vunmap(const void *addr);
+extern int remap_vmalloc_range_partial(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long uaddr, void *kaddr,
+ unsigned long size);
+
extern int remap_vmalloc_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr,
unsigned long pgoff);
void vmalloc_sync_all(void);