[PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not __get_vm_area_caller()

On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses given
to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order to be
able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I need
a "_caller" variant of it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---

I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the
patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?

 include/linux/vmalloc.h |    3 +++
 mm/vmalloc.c            |    8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- linux-work.orig/include/linux/vmalloc.h	2009-02-04 15:33:35.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/include/linux/vmalloc.h	2009-02-04 15:33:47.000000000 +1100
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area_cal
 					unsigned long flags, void *caller);
 extern struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
 					unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+extern struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_caller(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
+					      unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+					      void *caller);
 extern struct vm_struct *get_vm_area_node(unsigned long size,
 					  unsigned long flags, int node,
 					  gfp_t gfp_mask);
Index: linux-work/mm/vmalloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/mm/vmalloc.c	2009-02-04 15:32:47.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/mm/vmalloc.c	2009-02-04 15:33:25.000000000 +1100
@@ -1106,6 +1106,14 @@ struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area(unsigned
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__get_vm_area);
 
+struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_caller(unsigned long size, unsigned long flags,
+				       unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+				       void *caller)
+{
+	return __get_vm_area_node(size, flags, start, end, -1, GFP_KERNEL,
+				  caller);
+}
+
 /**
  *	get_vm_area  -  reserve a contiguous kernel virtual area
  *	@size:		size of the area

Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not __get_vm_area_caller()
> 
> On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses given
> to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order to be
> able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I need
> a "_caller" variant of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

It seems reasonable reason and this patch looks good to me :)
	Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>


> I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the
> patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?

hm.
Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first.
but I don't think this patch have conflict risk. 

Andrew, What do you think?

Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:47 +0900 (JST)
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the
> > patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?
> 
> hm.
> Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first.
> but I don't think this patch have conflict risk. 
> 
> Andrew, What do you think?

We can sneak it into mainline later in the week?

Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:47 +0900 (JST)
> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the
> > > patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?
> > 
> > hm.
> > Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first.
> > but I don't think this patch have conflict risk. 
> > 
> > Andrew, What do you think?
> 
> We can sneak it into mainline later in the week?

I think this patch obiously doesn't have any regression risk.
I obey your judgement.

Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: Add __get_vm_area_caller()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:22:47 +0900 (JST)
> KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I want to put into powerpc-next patches relying into that, so if the
> > > patch is ok with you guys, can I stick it in powerpc.git ?
> > 
> > hm.
> > Generally, all MM patch should merge into -mm tree at first.
> > but I don't think this patch have conflict risk. 
> > 
> > Andrew, What do you think?
> 
> We can sneak it into mainline later in the week?

That would be best.

Cheers,
Ben.