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authorJian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com>2011-05-17 12:27:49 -0700
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2011-07-25 17:26:51 +0100
commitd0be89f6c2570a63ac44ccdd12473a54243cd296 (patch)
tree3ba987eb48751ab94b75bb2e74e4e33b89192b34 /firmware
parent3a7136602b6fcb27073a241006cd5d029cacfafa (diff)
MIPS: topdown mmap support
This patch introduced topdown mmap support in user process address space allocation policy. Recently, we ran some large applications that use mmap heavily and lead to OOM due to inflexible mmap allocation policy on MIPS32. Since most other major archs supported it for years, it is reasonable to follow the trend and reduce the pain of porting applications. Due to cache aliasing concern, arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() and other helper functions are implemented in arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c. Signed-off-by: Jian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2389/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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