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-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c17
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 4d668abb6391..bfaaf0b6fa76 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
const void *caller);
void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask,
int node, const void *caller);
+void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size);
extern void vfree(const void *addr);
extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a13ac524f6ff..fada19e17814 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2999,6 +2999,23 @@ void *vmalloc(unsigned long size)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc);
/**
+ * vmalloc_no_huge - allocate virtually contiguous memory using small pages
+ * @size: allocation size
+ *
+ * Allocate enough non-huge pages to cover @size from the page level
+ * allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space.
+ *
+ * Return: pointer to the allocated memory or %NULL on error
+ */
+void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size)
+{
+ return __vmalloc_node_range(size, 1, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
+ GFP_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL, VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP,
+ NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_no_huge);
+
+/**
* vzalloc - allocate virtually contiguous memory with zero fill
* @size: allocation size
*