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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-11-26 19:46:19 -0800 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-11-26 19:46:48 -0800 |
commit | 47b649590dbbea182f854d6470ee1cd59b7b7684 (patch) | |
tree | a2de3610f9c5e963234cffb35b9d559aab62e164 /mm/vmalloc.c | |
parent | 3af5154a869bc278a829bb03e65a709480e821b0 (diff) | |
parent | caca6a03d365883564885f2c1da3e88dcf65d139 (diff) |
Merge 3.2-rc3 into usb-linus
This pulls in the latest USB bugfixes and helps a few of the drivers
merge nicer in the future due to changes in both branches.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index b669aa6f6caff..3231bf3328781 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -2141,23 +2141,30 @@ void __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void) static int f(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t table, unsigned long addr, void *data) { - /* apply_to_page_range() does all the hard work. */ + pte_t ***p = data; + + if (p) { + *(*p) = pte; + (*p)++; + } return 0; } /** * alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space * @size: size of the area + * @ptes: returns the PTEs for the address space * * Returns: NULL on failure, vm_struct on success * * This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and * allocates pagetables to map that range. No actual mappings - * are created. If the kernel address space is not shared - * between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all - * processes. + * are created. + * + * If @ptes is non-NULL, pointers to the PTEs (in init_mm) + * allocated for the VM area are returned. */ -struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size) +struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes) { struct vm_struct *area; @@ -2171,19 +2178,11 @@ struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size) * of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm. */ if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->addr, - area->size, f, NULL)) { + size, f, ptes ? &ptes : NULL)) { free_vm_area(area); return NULL; } - /* - * If the allocated address space is passed to a hypercall - * before being used then we cannot rely on a page fault to - * trigger an update of the page tables. So sync all the page - * tables here. - */ - vmalloc_sync_all(); - return area; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area); |