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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2020-10-18 01:15:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-18 18:27:10 +0200 |
| commit | b944afc9d64ddf1b6a152c23ff86bf26e1fd430c (patch) | |
| tree | 07fe08012b4afa9df5f214ab673f7069c89fa3d8 /mm/vmalloc.c | |
| parent | mm: update the documentation for vfree (diff) | |
| download | linux-b944afc9d64ddf1b6a152c23ff86bf26e1fd430c.tar.xz linux-b944afc9d64ddf1b6a152c23ff86bf26e1fd430c.zip | |
mm: add a VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES flag for vmap
Add a flag so that vmap takes ownership of the passed in page array. When
vfree is called on such an allocation it will put one reference on each
page, and free the page array itself.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
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); |