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-rw-r--r--include/linux/vmalloc.h9
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index b87696fdf06a..1526fe712ca0 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct; /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
#define VM_VPAGES 0x00000010 /* buffer for pages was vmalloc'ed */
#define VM_UNINITIALIZED 0x00000020 /* vm_struct is not fully initialized */
+#define VM_NO_GUARD 0x00000040 /* don't add guard page */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*
@@ -96,8 +97,12 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void);
static inline size_t get_vm_area_size(const struct vm_struct *area)
{
- /* return actual size without guard page */
- return area->size - PAGE_SIZE;
+ if (!(area->flags & VM_NO_GUARD))
+ /* return actual size without guard page */
+ return area->size - PAGE_SIZE;
+ else
+ return area->size;
+
}
extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags);
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 39c338896416..2e74e99d4cfe 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1324,10 +1324,8 @@ static struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_node(unsigned long size,
if (unlikely(!area))
return NULL;
- /*
- * We always allocate a guard page.
- */
- size += PAGE_SIZE;
+ if (!(flags & VM_NO_GUARD))
+ size += PAGE_SIZE;
va = alloc_vmap_area(size, align, start, end, node, gfp_mask);
if (IS_ERR(va)) {