[PATCH] mm: introduce remap_vmalloc_range()

Add remap_vmalloc_range, vmalloc_user, and vmalloc_32_user so that drivers
can have a nice interface for remapping vmalloc memory.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Nick Piggin
2006-06-23 02:03:20 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 762834e8bf
commit 833423143c
2 changed files with 128 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <asm/page.h> /* pgprot_t */
struct vm_area_struct;
/* bits in vm_struct->flags */
#define VM_IOREMAP 0x00000001 /* ioremap() and friends */
#define VM_ALLOC 0x00000002 /* vmalloc() */
#define VM_MAP 0x00000004 /* vmap()ed pages */
#define VM_USERMAP 0x00000008 /* suitable for remap_vmalloc_range */
/* bits [20..32] reserved for arch specific ioremap internals */
/*
@@ -32,9 +35,11 @@ struct vm_struct {
* Highlevel APIs for driver use
*/
extern void *vmalloc(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_user(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node);
extern void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_32(unsigned long size);
extern void *vmalloc_32_user(unsigned long size);
extern void *__vmalloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask, pgprot_t prot);
extern void *__vmalloc_area(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
pgprot_t prot);
@@ -45,6 +50,9 @@ extern void vfree(void *addr);
extern void *vmap(struct page **pages, unsigned int count,
unsigned long flags, pgprot_t prot);
extern void vunmap(void *addr);
extern int remap_vmalloc_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr,
unsigned long pgoff);
/*
* Lowlevel-APIs (not for driver use!)