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| author | Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> | 2016-12-12 16:44:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800 |
| commit | bf22e37a641327e34681b7b6959d9646e3886770 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b672d3f1579da486197e2abd4df6990c4f61158 /include/linux/vmalloc.h | |
| parent | 0574ecd141df28d573d4364adec59766ddf5f38d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-bf22e37a641327e34681b7b6959d9646e3886770.tar.gz lwn-bf22e37a641327e34681b7b6959d9646e3886770.zip | |
mm: add vfree_atomic()
We are going to use sleeping lock for freeing vmap. However some
vfree() users want to free memory from atomic (but not from interrupt)
context. For this we add vfree_atomic() - deferred variation of vfree()
which can be used in any atomic context (except NMIs).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment grammar]
[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: use raw_cpu_ptr() instead of this_cpu_ptr()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481553981-3856-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-5-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/vmalloc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmalloc.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h index 3d9d786a943c..d68edffbf142 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h +++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ extern void *__vmalloc_node_range(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, const void *caller); extern void vfree(const void *addr); +extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr); extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count, unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot); |