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vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
authorHATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:06:07 +0000 (10:06 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:13:05 +0000 (17:13 +1000)
commitb56108bb8290a3ff533441fff2dad195bbb761d8
tree4d03636e75bfd013783d1dd14d8bc018066aa09e
parentae75ec405b70de47ae7c689681a72e4ff1d4281b
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.

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>
include/linux/vmalloc.h
mm/vmalloc.c