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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 9 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h index 0221f852a7e1..b899681e3ff9 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct notifier_block; /* in notifier.h */ #define VM_UNINITIALIZED 0x00000020 /* vm_struct is not fully initialized */ #define VM_NO_GUARD 0x00000040 /* don't add guard page */ #define VM_KASAN 0x00000080 /* has allocated kasan shadow memory */ +#define VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES 0x00000100 /* put pages and free array in vfree */ /* * VM_KASAN is used slighly differently depending on CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC. diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 74af03a2a769..63b19a571be7 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2377,8 +2377,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vunmap); * @flags: vm_area->flags * @prot: page protection for the mapping * - * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual - * space. + * Maps @count pages from @pages into contiguous kernel virtual space. + * If @flags contains %VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES the ownership of the pages array itself + * (which must be kmalloc or vmalloc memory) and one reference per pages in it + * are transferred from the caller to vmap(), and will be freed / dropped when + * vfree() is called on the return value. * * Return: the address of the area or %NULL on failure */ @@ -2404,6 +2407,8 @@ void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count, return NULL; } + if (flags & VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES) + area->pages = pages; return area->addr; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmap); |