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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-07 16:38:06 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-07 16:38:06 -0700 |
commit | 26c12d93348f0bda0756aff83f4867d9ae58a5a6 (patch) | |
tree | 65221f6837c66a9260c5c973e5fb908b10e0d504 /mm/vmalloc.c | |
parent | Merge branch 'for-3.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup (diff) | |
parent | MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- zram updates
- zswap updates
- exit
- procfs
- exec
- wait
- crash dump
- lib/idr
- rapidio
- adfs, affs, bfs, ufs
- cris
- Kconfig things
- initramfs
- small amount of IPC material
- percpu enhancements
- early ioremap support
- various other misc things
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (156 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers
fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer
fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer
fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer
fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache()
doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug
arm64: add early_ioremap support
arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot
x86: use generic early_ioremap
mm: create generic early_ioremap() support
x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap
lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP
percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops
vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks
slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics
net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc
modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount.
mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node
percpu: add raw_cpu_ops
slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 0fdf96803c5b..bf233b283319 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ #include <linux/pfn.h> #include <linux/kmemleak.h> #include <linux/atomic.h> +#include <linux/compiler.h> #include <linux/llist.h> + #include <asm/uaccess.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> #include <asm/shmparam.h> @@ -1083,6 +1085,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_unmap_ram); * @node: prefer to allocate data structures on this node * @prot: memory protection to use. PAGE_KERNEL for regular RAM * + * If you use this function for less than VMAP_MAX_ALLOC pages, it could be + * faster than vmap so it's good. But if you mix long-life and short-life + * objects with vm_map_ram(), it could consume lots of address space through + * fragmentation (especially on a 32bit machine). You could see failures in + * the end. Please use this function for short-lived objects. + * * Returns: a pointer to the address that has been mapped, or %NULL on failure */ void *vm_map_ram(struct page **pages, unsigned int count, int node, pgprot_t prot) @@ -2181,7 +2189,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_vmalloc_range); * Implement a stub for vmalloc_sync_all() if the architecture chose not to * have one. */ -void __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void) +void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void) { } |